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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2025, 3:44 PM EDT for 7 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 29, 2025, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2025, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Destructive
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 80.0 mph
Counties Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Apr 29, 2:58 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 2:58 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Pittsburgh PA 328 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-WVZ001>004-012-301930- Tuscarawas-Carroll-Columbiana-Coshocton-Harrison-Jefferson OH- Muskingum-Guernsey-Belmont-Noble-Monroe-Hancock-Brooke-Ohio-Marshall- Wetzel- 328 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 188 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Ohio, and northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There also is a potential for severe weather on Thursday as well but confidence is low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ007>009-013>016-020>022-029-031-073>078-301930- Mercer-Venango-Forest-Lawrence-Butler-Clarion-Jefferson PA-Beaver- Allegheny-Armstrong-Washington-Greene-Westmoreland- Higher Elevations of Westmoreland-Fayette- Higher Elevations of Fayette-Indiana-Higher Elevations of Indiana- 328 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 191 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There also is a potential for severe weather on Thursday as well but confidence is low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. WVZ021-509>514-301930- Marion-Monongalia- Ridges of Eastern Monongalia and Northwestern Preston-Preston- Eastern Preston-Western Tucker-Eastern Tucker- 328 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 191 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern West Virginia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. There also is a potential for severe weather on Thursday as well but confidence is low at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 29, 3:38 PM EDT, 6 minutes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence, Washington | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Washington | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Indiana, Lawrence and 2 more | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 13 min |
| Apr 29, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Indiana and 4 more | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 66 min |
| Apr 29, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Venango | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest, Jefferson | 26 min |
| Apr 29, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia, Wetzel | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Coshocton, Muskingum | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Monroe, Noble | 58 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.