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Wind Advisory 4, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

February 13, 2025Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Feb 13, 2025, 2:28 AM EST for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 13, 2025, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 13, 2025, 2:28 AM EST (07:28 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 13, 2025, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 13, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
In force
8 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 07:29 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-02-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-02-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 358 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
358 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
407 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
Feb 13, 1:44 AM ESTFlood WatchPBZAllegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland3 days
Feb 13, 11:44 AM ESTRiver Flood WatchPBZFayette, Washington, Westmoreland4 days
Feb 13, 11:44 AM ESTRiver Flood WatchPBZAllegheny, Washington63 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.