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Freeze Warning 5, NWS State College, PA

October 18, 200817 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this freeze warning at Oct 18, 2008, 3:24 AM EDT for 17 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 19, 2008, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 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
Oct 18, 2008, 3:24 AM EDT (07:24 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 19, 2008, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 19, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Union County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 00:00Z on 2008-10-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2008-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1192 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 9:12 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryCTPBedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Columbia and 9 more12 hr
Oct 18, 3:24 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryCTPAdams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and 2 more30 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008

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.