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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 5, 2026, 12:25 PM EST for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 6, 2026, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 20 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
- Feb 5, 2026, 12:25 PM EST (17:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2026, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2026, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 Feb 5, 6:44 AM EST, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 6:44 AM EST, 5 hours 41 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:09 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Fayette, Forest, Indiana and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:57 AM EST | Extreme Cold Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Fayette, Forest, Indiana and 4 more | 70 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:04 PM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence, Mercer and 3 more | 70 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:25 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | Fayette, Indiana, Westmoreland | 42 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.