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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Feb 21, 2023, 2:56 AM EST for Fayette County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Monongalia County, Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 21, 2023, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2023, 2:56 AM EST (07:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 21, 2023, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 9 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 07:54 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 Feb 21, 1:29 AM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 1:29 AM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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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.