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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 11, 2008, 8:59 AM EST for 8 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2008, 8:59 AM EST (13:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2008, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Armstrong County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 1026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 11, 4:14 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 4:14 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 4:07 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Lawrence and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:12 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 4 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:12 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Lawrence and 1 more | 29 hr |
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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.