Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Advisories in 2007

Wind Advisory 2, NWS State College, PA

March 5, 200722 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2007, 3:26 AM EST for 22 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Mar 5, 2007, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 2007, 3:26 AM EST (08:26 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 5, 2007, 2:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 5, 2007, 10:00 PM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
All 22 counties

Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Union County, PA, York County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2007-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2007-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS71 KCTP 050826
NPWCTP

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
326 AM EST MON MAR 5 2007

...VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL FOLLOW THE PASSAGE OF AN ARCTIC 
FRONT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

.VERY COLD AIR WILL PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION FOLLOWING THE
PASSAGE OF AN ARCTIC FRONT. WEST SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE
NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE TO 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS
AROUND 45 MPH. THE VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
THIS EVENING.

PAZ024>028-033>036-049>053-056>059-063>066-060300-
/O.NEW.KCTP.WI.Y.0002.070305T1900Z-070306T0300Z/
CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-
FRANKLIN-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-
DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER-
326 AM EST MON MAR 5 2007

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM EST
THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 PM
EST THIS EVENING. 

VERY COLD AIR WILL PUSH SOUTH INTO THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON
FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF AN ARCTIC FRONT. WEST SOUTHWEST WINDS OF
10 TO 20 MPH WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON AND
INCREASE TO 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH. THE VERY WINDY
CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING...BEFORE SLOWLY
SUBSIDING OVERNIGHT.

WIND CHILLS WILL DROP TO BETWEEN 10 AND 15 ACROSS MUCH OF THE
REGION BY SHORTLY AFTER DUSK...BEFORE SETTLING IN THE ZERO TO 10
BELOW ZERO RANGE EARLY TUESDAY.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT STRONG...GUSTY WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING
DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES IN EXPOSED
LOCATIONS. GUSTY WINDS COULD ALSO CAUSE SOME MINOR PROPERTY
DAMAGE.

$$

LAMBERT/STEINBUGL

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 3:43 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryCTPCambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk and 7 more32 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2007Every wind advisory in 2007

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.