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Winter Weather Advisory 9, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 23, 2012, 2:05 PM EST for 9 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 23, 2012, 11:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2012, 2:05 PM EST (19:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2012, 11:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 5:41 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cameron County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Feb 23, 12:19 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 12:19 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 1:46 PM EST | High Wind Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 14 more | 8 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.