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Wind Chill Advisory 7, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

January 28, 201414 counties in Pennsylvania; 11 counties in Ohio; 6 counties in West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 28, 2014, 11:58 AM EST for 14 counties in Pennsylvania; 11 counties in Ohio; 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 2014, 11:58 AM EST (16:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 29, 2014, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 24 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 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 5.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 123 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 27, 6:26 PM EST, 17 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 6:26 PM EST, 17 hours 32 minutes before

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Wind Chill Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2014 Wind Chill Advisories in Ohio, 2014 Wind Chill Advisories in West Virginia, 2014 Every wind chill advisory in 2014

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.