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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this high wind warning at Jan 26, 2025, 1:51 PM EST for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 13 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 26, 2025, 1:51 PM EST (18:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2025, 1:20 PM EST
- 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 18:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 103 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 26, 1:51 PM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland | 47 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.