Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2012
Freezing Rain Advisory 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 15, 2012, 3:28 PM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; Sussex County, New Jersey. It took effect at Dec 16, 2012, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2012, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 16, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2012, 3:30 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
451 WWUS41 KPHI 152028 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 328 PM EST SAT DEC 15 2012 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-161000- /O.NEW.KPHI.ZR.Y.0004.121216T0900Z-121216T1500Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 328 PM EST SAT DEC 15 2012 ...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 10 AM EST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 10 AM EST SUNDAY. * LOCATIONS...THE SOUTHERN POCONOS OD PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. * HAZARD TYPES...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN. * ICE ACCUMULATIONS...FROM A TRACE TO A COUPLE OF HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH. * TIMING...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN SHOULD ARRIVES AFTER 400 AM ACROSS THE REGION...AND CONTINUE INTO THE MID TO LATE MORNING HOURS. * IMPACTS...A LIGHT COATING OF ICE IS EXPECTED ON COLDER SURFACES...WHICH MAY INCLUDE UNTREATED TRAVEL SURFACES. * WINDS...EAST AROUND 5 MPH. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 30S. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF FREEZING RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS. SLOW DOWN AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. && $$
1 follow-up statement
117 WWUS41 KPHI 160830 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 AM EST SUN DEC 16 2012 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-160930- /O.CAN.KPHI.ZR.Y.0004.121216T0900Z-121216T1500Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 330 AM EST SUN DEC 16 2012 ...FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZING RAIN ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE ADVISED AREA ARE ABOVE FREEZING AND WILL REMAIN THAT WAY THIS MORNING. THERE COULD BE A FEW VERY ISOLATED POCKETS OF FREEZING RAIN THROUGH THE MID-MORNING HOURS AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 1800 FEET...THESE AREAS WILL BE HANDLED WITH A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT INSTEAD. $$ HEAVENER
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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.