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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2023, 6:59 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2023, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2023, 7:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fayette County, PA, Preston County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 26, 6:42 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 6:42 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...CORRECTED National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 449 PM EDT Mon Jun 26 2023 PAZ007>009-013>016-020>022-029-031-073>078-WVZ021-509>514-272015- Mercer-Venango-Forest-Lawrence-Butler-Clarion-Jefferson PA-Beaver- Allegheny-Armstrong-Washington-Greene-Westmoreland- Higher Elevations of Westmoreland-Fayette- Higher Elevations of Fayette-Indiana-Higher Elevations of Indiana- Marion-Monongalia- Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston-Preston- Eastern Preston-Western Tucker-Eastern Tucker- 449 PM EDT Mon Jun 26 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Heavy downpours in showers and thunderstorms could result in localized flooding through early this evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-WVZ001>004-012-272015- Tuscarawas-Carroll-Columbiana-Coshocton-Harrison-Jefferson OH- Muskingum-Guernsey-Belmont-Noble-Monroe-Hancock-Brooke-Ohio-Marshall- Wetzel- 449 PM EDT Mon Jun 26 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Ohio, and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. WM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA
534 PM EDT Mon Jun 26 2023
PAZ014-020-262200-
Butler PA-Beaver PA-
534 PM EDT Mon Jun 26 2023
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN BEAVER AND
SOUTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM EDT...
At 533 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Monaca, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Cranberry, Aliquippa, Beaver Falls, Monaca, Economy, New Brighton,
Beaver, Baden, Zelienople, Rochester, Industry, Evans City, Patterson
Township, Conway, Freedom, Nixon, Harmony, Bridgewater, Patterson
Heights, and East Rochester.
This includes the following highways...
Pennsylvania Turnpike between mile markers 17 and 27.
Interstate 79 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 80 and 90.
Interstate 376 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 36 and 40.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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LAT...LON 4078 7994 4061 8026 4069 8039 4085 8019
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 227DEG 26KT 4068 8027
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
HefferanSpecial weather statement, Jun 26, 5:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Westmoreland | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Westmoreland | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Forest | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 9:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Cambria | 13 min |
| Jun 25, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 8:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Butler | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Washington | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington | 28 min |
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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.