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Tornado Warning 60, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Sep 9, 2026, 7:24 PM EDT for Beaver County, Pennsylvania; Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 14 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
- Sep 9, 2026, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 2026, 7:38 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
Counties Beaver County, PA, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Washington | 39 min |
| Sep 9, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana | 42 min |
| Sep 9, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson | 31 min |
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.