A line of showers and an embedded thunderstorm associated with a cold front moving across the region produced isolated wind damage in Preston County, West Virginia early in the morning on Spetember 28th.
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A line of showers and an embedded thunderstorm associated with a cold front moving across the region produced isolated wind damage in Preston County, West Virginia early in the morning on Spetember 28th.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Sep 28, 1:46 AM EST, 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 246 AM EDT TUE SEP 28 2010 .SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE WILL PUSH ACROSS NORTHWEST PA THIS MORNING BRINGING PERIODS OF RAIN TODAY. RAIN WILL TAPER TO SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON AS THE STORM MOVES NORTH. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRY CONDITIONS BY WEDNESDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... A STORM CENTERED NEAR NEW PHILADELPHIA THIS MORNING WILL PUSH INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES BY THIS AFTERNOON. PERIODS OF RAIN AND FOG THIS MORNING WILL GIVE WAY TO RAIN SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON. THE SHOWERS WILL BECOME MORE WIDELY SCATTERED TONIGHT AS THE STORM EXITS TO THE NORTH. CLOUDS AND RAIN TODAY WILL HOLD TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL. SHOWERS WILL END COMPLETELY LATER TONIGHT AS WEAK SURFACE HIGH MOVES IN WITH DRIER AIR IN THE LOW LEVELS. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING DRY WEATHER FOR WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH GENERALLY DRY WEATHER AND NEAR SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES. A WEAK EAST COAST STORM MAY BRING A RISK OF SHOWERS EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT BUT THE RAIN SHOULD REMAIN EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS WITH DRY WEATHER CONTINUING THROUGH FRIDAY. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL SWING THROUGH THE OHIO SATURDAY WITH JUST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS ACROSS THE I80 CORRIDOR AND DRY WEATHER EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR NORMAL SEASONAL VALUES. A STRONG HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL ADVANCE INTO THE REGION FROM THE WEST ON SUNDAY...WITH MORE OF A NORTHERLY FLOW ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE THROUGH. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR DRY AND COOL CONDITIONS FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 5 TO 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THIS PERIOD. && .AVIATION /06Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM PASSES NORTH ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BE PREVALENT WITH REDUCED CONDITIONS AND RAIN. IFR AND LOWER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THIS MORNING. AS THE LOW MOVES FURTHER NORTH...CONDITIONS WILL LIFT INTO THE IFR TO MVFR RANGE AS THE RAIN SUBSIDES. AS A SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS IN LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...LEFT OVER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FOG AND STRATUS FORMATION TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...A FAIR WEATHER DAY WITH PREVAILING VFR CONDITIONS IS FORESEEN FOR WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...WITH RESTRICTIONS POSSIBLE. HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD PROVIDE FOR FAIR WEATHER AND PREVAILING VFR ON FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL BRING A COOLER AIRMASS FOR SATURDAY...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR MVFR TO VFR STRATUS FORMATION. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 501 AM EDT MON SEP 27 2010 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-280915- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO- FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY- ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-WESTMORELAND-GREENE-FAYETTE-HANCOCK- BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION-MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 501 AM EDT MON SEP 27 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:27 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The emergency manager in Preston County reported trees down in Kingwood.
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