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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 19, 2008Allegany County, Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 19, 2008, 2:22 PM EST for Allegany County, Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 20, 2008, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 2008, 2:22 PM EST (19:22 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2008, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 20, 2008, 10:00 PM EST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties Allegany County, MD, Grant County, WV, Mineral County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 2008-01-19Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2008-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
102 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.