Pittsburgh Weather: First Alert issued with threat of storms, gusty winds and hail on the way
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A First Alert Weather Day has been issued for Thursday evening.
First Alert: Main threats will be damaging winds up to 60 mph, isolated tornadoes, and small hail.
Aware: Timing will be between 7-11 p.m.
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The chance for some low-end severe weather will be around this evening.
Our region is under a marginal risk which is a one-out-of-five on the severe weather scale. Rain showers will be ending around lunch, making way for some sunshine this afternoon. This will be fuel for any storm development later this evening.
Ohio will have the best chance to see any severe weather since this will be happening during the day for them. A line of storms will start to move through just after sunset. This line will quickly move through be out of Western Pennsylvania by 11 p.m.
Given that it will be at night when the storms roll through, this will diminish those severe weather chances but not zero them out. Damaging winds up to 50-60 mph, isolated tornadoes and small hail will be the main threats. Have your KDKA weather app alerts turned on so that way you can have any alerts sent straight to your phone the moment they happen!
Once the rain and severe weather threat is done, any rain will switch over to snow by Friday morning thanks to colder air moving in from a cold front.
Scattered snow showers will last throughout the day Friday and we could see up to an inch or two of snow accumulations.
Things calm down Saturday and highs return into the 30s.
Another system will come in for Sunday bringing us both a rain and snow. It'll switch back to all snow by Monday and most areas could see an inch or two of snow, but models have been projecting the ridges and laurels to see a few inches more. We'll continue to watch this at it gets closer.
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