Alert archive / West Virginia / Winter Storm Warnings in 2024
Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 15, 2024, 10:53 AM EST for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 23 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2024, 10:53 AM EST (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2024, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 3:15 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Westmoreland | 34 hr |
Nearby
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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.