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Frost Advisory 15, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this frost advisory at Oct 7, 2008, 2:14 PM EDT for 8 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 8, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2008, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 8, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2008, 3:34 AM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Columbia County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Union County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.