Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 11, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind advisory at Dec 30, 2012, 9:39 AM EST for 14 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 2012, 9:39 AM EST (14:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2012, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Perry County, PA, Somerset County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:39 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
980 WWUS71 KCTP 301439 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 939 AM EST SUN DEC 30 2012 PAZ024>026-033>036-056-057-059-063>066-302000- /O.NEW.KCTP.WI.Y.0011.121230T1439Z-121230T2000Z/ CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-PERRY- DAUPHIN-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...ALTOONA...HUNTINGDON... MOUNT UNION...SOMERSET...BEDFORD...MCCONNELLSBURG... CHAMBERSBURG...NEWPORT...HARRISBURG...HERSHEY...LEBANON... CARLISLE...GETTYSBURG...YORK...LANCASTER 939 AM EST SUN DEC 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE...DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IS ALSO POSSIBLE. DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ESPECIALLY ON NORTH-SOUTH ROADS WHERE STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL OCCUR. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG MAY CAUSE MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE WITHOUT EXTRA PRECAUTIONS. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION UNTIL THE WIND SUBSIDES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 1:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 47 min |
| Dec 30, 2:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield, Mifflin | 57 min |
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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.