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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this winter storm warning at Jan 8, 2025, 11:22 AM EST for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 25 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2025, 11:22 AM EST (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2025, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 25 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 16:21 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 12:00Z, 4.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 7, 6:47 PM EST, 16 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 6:47 PM EST, 16 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 6:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 8, 8:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny | 26 min |
| Jan 8, 10:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 55 min |
| Jan 8, 11:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Jefferson | 63 min |
| Jan 8, 11:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Greene | 58 min |
| Jan 8, 9:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Ohio | 33 min |
| Jan 8, 10:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Ohio | 32 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.