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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 13, 2023Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Mar 13, 2023, 3:12 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 14, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 2023, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 14, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 14, 2023, 11:52 PM EDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 2:26 AM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryPBZFayette, Indiana, Westmoreland36 hr
Mar 13, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBeaver, Greene, Washington42 min
Mar 13, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZAllegheny, Beaver, Fayette47 min
Mar 13, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZAllegheny, Butler, Fayette, Lawrence, Westmoreland49 min
Mar 13, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZArmstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, Mercer, Venango and 1 more46 min
Mar 13, 6:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZArmstrong, Clarion, Forest, Indiana, Jefferson, Mercer and 1 more58 min
Mar 13, 7:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZClarion, Indiana, Jefferson, Venango60 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.