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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2025, 1:00 PM EST for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 17 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
- Feb 16, 2025, 1:00 PM EST (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2025, 1:17 PM EST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
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 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 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
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 97 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 16, 10:43 AM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 10:43 AM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 WVZ512-514-170845- Eastern Preston-Eastern Tucker- 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 3 PM EST MONDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. Blizzard Warning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Blizzard Warning. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. WVZ510-511-513-170845- Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston-Preston- Western Tucker- 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 3 PM EST MONDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. Winter Weather Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Winter Weather Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ020-021-029-031-073-075- WVZ001>004-012-021-509-170845- Tuscarawas-Carroll-Columbiana-Coshocton-Harrison-Jefferson OH- Muskingum-Guernsey-Belmont-Noble-Monroe-Beaver-Allegheny-Washington- Greene-Westmoreland-Fayette-Hancock-Brooke-Ohio-Marshall-Wetzel- Marion-Monongalia- 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Ohio, southwest Pennsylvania, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ007>009-013>016-022-077-170845- Mercer-Venango-Forest-Lawrence-Butler-Clarion-Jefferson PA-Armstrong- Indiana- 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ074-076-170845- Higher Elevations of Westmoreland-Higher Elevations of Fayette- 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 3 PM EST MONDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. Wind Advisory. Winter Weather Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Winter Weather Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. PAZ078-170845- Higher Elevations of Indiana- 336 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PBZ | Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland | 16 hr |
| Feb 16, 10:35 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:28 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:50 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 16 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe, Muskingum, Noble | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:11 AM EST | River Flood Watch | PBZ | Tuscarawas | 13 hr |
| Feb 16, 8:09 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Monroe, Noble | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 9:38 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Guernsey, Muskingum, Noble, Tuscarawas | 11 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.