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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

February 14, 200711 counties in Pennsylvania; 5 counties in Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 14, 2007, 1:29 PM EST for 11 counties in Pennsylvania; 5 counties in Ohio; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 14, 2007, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 2007, 1:29 PM EST (18:29 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 14, 2007, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 15, 2007, 10:00 AM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Counties Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 42 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2007-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2007-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 chill advisory went out at Feb 13, 2:11 PM EST, 23 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 2:11 PM EST, 23 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 2:59 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryPBZAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 5 more10 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2007Wind Chill Advisories in Ohio, 2007Wind Chill Advisories in West Virginia, 2007Every wind chill 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.