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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 24, 2014, 9:44 PM EST for 14 counties in Pennsylvania; 11 counties in Ohio; 6 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 25, 2014, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2014, 9:44 PM EST (02:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2014, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2014, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
All 31 counties
Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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 (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 640 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 750 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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Jan 24, 7:11 PM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 7:11 PM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 24, 3:05 PM EST, 6 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 305 PM EST FRI JAN 24 2014 MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029-031-073>076-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-252015- GARRETT-TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON- JEFFERSON OH-MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-MERCER-VENANGO- FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION-JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ALLEGHENY- ARMSTRONG-INDIANA-WASHINGTON-GREENE-WESTMORELAND-WESTMORELAND RIDGES- FAYETTE-FAYETTE RIDGES-HANCOCK-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION- MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 305 PM EST FRI JAN 24 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 PM EST SATURDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL BRING LIGHT SNOW TO THE AREA SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. MINOR ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM. ARCTIC AIR WILL ONCE AGAIN SETTLE IN OVER THE AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK. BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES AND DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS ARE LIKELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Beaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 51 min |
| Jan 25, 4:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Indiana and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 25, 6:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson | 67 min |
| Jan 25, 6:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Fayette | 47 min |
| Jan 25, 6:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Preston | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.