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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS State College, PA

February 7, 201310 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this winter storm warning at Feb 7, 2013, 2:11 PM EST for 10 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 8, 2013, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 7, 2013, 2:11 PM EST (19:11 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 8, 2013, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 8, 2013, 1:32 PM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Columbia County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Potter County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2013-02-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2013-02-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 7, 2:11 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCTPAdams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more37 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013Every winter storm warning in 2013

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.