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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 26, 2025Fayette County, Indiana County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Jan 26, 2025, 1:51 PM EST for Fayette County, Indiana County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Preston County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 28, 2025, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.

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

Counties Fayette County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Preston County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 81 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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2025-01-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2025-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 1:51 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningPBZTucker47 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.