Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Chill Advisories in 2011
Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 23, 2011, 3:37 PM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 24, 2011, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2011, 3:37 PM EST (20:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 24, 2011, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2011, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
961 WWUS41 KPHI 232037 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 337 PM EST SUN JAN 23 2011 PAZ054-055-240445- /O.NEW.KPHI.WC.Y.0001.110124T0500Z-110124T1300Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 337 PM EST SUN JAN 23 2011 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EST MONDAY. * COVERAGE: THE POCONOS. * WIND CHILL VALUES: SHOULD DROP TO BETWEEN 15 AND 20 BELOW ZERO FOR SEVERAL HOURS EARLY MONDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$ DRAG
2 follow-up statements
081 WWUS41 KPHI 240214 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 914 PM EST SUN JAN 23 2011 PAZ054-055-241300- /O.CON.KPHI.WC.Y.0001.110124T0500Z-110124T1300Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 914 PM EST SUN JAN 23 2011 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EST MONDAY... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EST MONDAY. * COVERAGE: THE POCONOS. * WIND CHILL VALUES: SHOULD DROP TO BETWEEN 15 AND 20 BELOW ZERO FOR SEVERAL HOURS EARLY MONDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$
335 WWUS41 KPHI 241253 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 753 AM EST MON JAN 24 2011 PAZ054-055-241400- /O.EXP.KPHI.WC.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-110124T1300Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 753 AM EST MON JAN 24 2011 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EST THIS MORNING... THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EST THIS MORNING. * GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: THE POCONOS * WIND CHILL VALUES: NEAR 15 BELOW AT 8AM WILL STEADILY WARM. * OTHER IMPACTS: THIS WAS THE WORST OF THE WIND CHILL COLD FOR MOST...IF NOT ALL OF THIS COMING WEEK. * WHAT OCCURRED: MOUNT POCONO HAD A WIND CHILL OF MINUS 15 AT 10 PM LAST EVENING AND THEN 15 TO 19 BELOW ZERO EVERY HOUR FROM 1 AM THROUGH 7 AM THIS MORNING. $$ DRAG
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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.