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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2024, 11:13 AM EDT for 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 6, 2024, 11:13 AM EDT (15:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2024, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Butler County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1038 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Aug 6, 10:49 AM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:49 AM EDT, 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 6, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 11:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Venango | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 11:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Mercer, Venango | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 12:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Venango | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 12:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Venango | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Venango | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 12:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Venango | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Venango | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, Jefferson | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Jefferson | 19 min |
| Aug 6, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Lawrence, Mercer | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer, Venango | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 1:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Mercer, Venango | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Butler, Lawrence, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Mercer, Venango | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana, Jefferson | 18 min |
| Aug 6, 2:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Westmoreland | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 3:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Butler | 97 min |
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland | 20 min |
| Aug 6, 3:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 88 min |
| Aug 6, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 5:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Lawrence, Mercer | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 5:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 9 min |
| Aug 6, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Lawrence, Mercer | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer and 1 more | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana, Jefferson and 2 more | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Indiana | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Clarion | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver | 82 min |
| Aug 6, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Indiana, Washington, Westmoreland | 48 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.