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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 21, 2013, 4:12 AM EST for 8 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 21, 2013, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2013, 4:12 AM EST (09:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2013, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2013, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 103 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill advisory went out at Jan 20, 4:43 PM EST, 11 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 4:43 PM EST, 11 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 7:03 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Watch | CTP | Warren | 9 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:12 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | CTP | Warren | 25 hr |
| Jan 21, 1:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 104 min |
| Jan 21, 3:49 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 41 min |
| Jan 21, 4:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 5:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 33 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.