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Frost Advisory 4, NWS State College, PA

May 11, 2009Lycoming County, Sullivan County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this frost advisory at May 11, 2009, 2:59 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Sullivan County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 12, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 2009, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
In effect from
May 12, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 12, 2009, 8:42 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Lycoming County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-05-11Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 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
May 11, 5:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford, Fulton36 min
May 11, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPFulton23 min
May 11, 6:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPHuntingdon19 min

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.