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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 24, 2023Indiana County, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Mar 24, 2023, 5:50 PM EDT for Indiana County, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Mar 25, 2023, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 24, 2023, 5:50 PM EDT (21:50 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 25, 2023, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 25, 2023, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Counties Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Mar 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 2:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 24, 12:46 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1246 PM EDT FRI MAR 24 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 AM     FLOOD            1 ESE CALDWELL          39.74N  81.50W
03/24/2023                   NOBLE              OH   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            ALL OF STATE ROUTE 564 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ2300556

SKH

Local storm report, Mar 24, 12:48 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1248 PM EDT FRI MAR 24 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 AM     FLOOD            2 NNE ROAD FORK         39.69N  81.30W
03/24/2023                   NOBLE              OH   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            STATE ROUTE 145 FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY TO STAFFORD HAS
            FLOODED AREAS.

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ2300557

SKH

Local storm report, Mar 24, 12:50 PM EDT, 5 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1250 PM EDT FRI MAR 24 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 AM     FLOOD            2 SW SWAZEY             39.74N  81.32W
03/24/2023                   NOBLE              OH   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            STATE ROUTE 724 IS FLOODED.

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ2300558

SKH

Local storm report, Mar 24, 12:51 PM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
1251 PM EDT FRI MAR 24 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0805 AM     FLOOD            1 NNW SUMMERFIELD       39.81N  81.35W
03/24/2023                   NOBLE              OH   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            STATE ROUTE 146 IS FLOODED NEAR SUMMERFIELD.

&&

EVENT NUMBER PBZ2300559

SKH

Local storm report, Mar 24, 2:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 12:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Fayette, Washington	3 hr
Mar 24, 10:50 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	PBZ	Allegheny	24 hr
Mar 24, 1:26 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 9 more	34 hr
Mar 24, 8:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PBZ	Monroe, Noble	8 hr
Mar 24, 10:54 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Tuscarawas	3 days
Mar 24, 10:54 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PBZ	Coshocton	4 days
Mar 24, 4:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PBZ	Noble	16 hr

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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.