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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind advisory at Mar 15, 2026, 1:55 AM EDT for 15 counties in Pennsylvania; 11 counties in Ohio; 9 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 15, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2026, 1:55 AM EDT (05:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2026, 11:53 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
All 35 counties
Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 2173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 14, 8:01 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 8:01 PM EDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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