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Frost Advisory 7, NWS State College, PA

October 12, 20108 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this frost advisory at Oct 12, 2010, 4:10 AM EDT for 8 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 13, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 2010, 4:10 AM EDT (08:10 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 13, 2010, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 13, 2010, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 00:00Z on 2010-10-12Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2010-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 11, 8:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair, Mifflin56 min
Oct 11, 9:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCameron, Tioga51 min
Oct 11, 10:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPSullivan65 min
Oct 11, 11:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPPerry35 min
Oct 11, 11:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCentre32 min
Oct 11, 11:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford32 min
Oct 12, 12:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPSnyder29 min
Oct 12, 12:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPDauphin, Lebanon35 min
Oct 12, 12:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford32 min
Oct 12, 12:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPFranklin30 min
Oct 12, 12:49 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPNorthumberland26 min
Oct 12, 1:02 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCumberland, Franklin, Fulton28 min
Oct 12, 2:22 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder38 min
Oct 12, 3:05 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPAdams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster and 6 more40 min
Oct 12, 4:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPElk41 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.