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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 20, 2025Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Mar 20, 2025, 2:32 AM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 20, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 2025, 2:32 AM EDT (06:32 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 20, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 21, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
15 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 06:34 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, 6.5 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 2025-03-20Temperature 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2025-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3417 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.