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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Jan 19, 2023, 2:15 AM EST for Fayette County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Monongalia County, Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 19, 2023, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2023, 2:15 AM EST (07:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2023, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2023, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Fayette County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Monongalia County, WV, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 18, 8:21 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 8:21 PM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Greene, Washington | 48 min |
| Jan 19, 5:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 44 min |
| Jan 19, 6:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Belmont, Carroll, Guernsey, Harrison, Monroe, Noble and 1 more | 33 min |
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Sources
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.