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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 8, 2014Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 8, 2014, 5:08 AM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 8, 2014, 5:08 AM EST (10:08 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 2014, 10:00 AM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1223 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 99 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

689 
WWUS41 KPHI 081008
WSWPHI

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
508 AM EST WED JAN 8 2014

PAZ054-055-081500-
/O.CAN.KPHI.WC.W.0001.000000T0000Z-140108T1100Z/
/O.NEW.KPHI.WC.Y.0003.140108T1008Z-140108T1500Z/
CARBON-MONROE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG
508 AM EST WED JAN 8 2014

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING...
...WIND CHILL WARNING IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WIND
CHILL ADVISORY. IT IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM. THE WIND CHILL
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

* LOCATION...THE POCONO REGION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

* HAZARD TYPE...DANGEROUS COLD AND WIND.

* WIND CHILL VALUES...AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

* WIND SPEEDS...A WESTERLY WIND AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

* IMPACTS...PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THE DANGEROUS COLD AND WIND MAY
  LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA AND FROSTBITE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT THE COMBINATION OF VERY COLD
AIR AND THE WESTERLY WIND WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL
VALUES. LIMIT YOUR TIME OUTSIDE AND KEEP PETS INDOORS, AS WELL.

IF YOU HAVE WATER PIPES WITHIN THE OUTER WALLS OF YOUR HOME, MAKE
SURE THAT YOUR THERMOSTAT IS SET HIGH ENOUGH TO KEEP THEM FROM
FREEZING AND YOU MAY WANT TO ALLOW A TRICKLE OF WATER TO RUN
THROUGH YOUR FAUCETS. BOTH ACTIONS MAY PREVENT YOUR WATER PIPES
FROM FREEZING AND POSSIBLY BURSTING.

IF YOU ARE USING A SPACE HEATER, BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE SAFETY
INSTRUCTIONS.

CHECK YOUR CAR BATTERY AND ANTIFREEZE TO AVOID GETTING STRANDED
IN THE BITTER COLD.

&&

$$

IOVINO

1 follow-up statement

656 
WWUS41 KPHI 081458
WSWPHI

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
958 AM EST WED JAN 8 2014

PAZ054-055-081600-
/O.EXP.KPHI.WC.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-140108T1500Z/
CARBON-MONROE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG
958 AM EST WED JAN 8 2014

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM EST THIS MORNING...

TEMPERATURES HAVE WARMED ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY
TO EXPIRE. WINDS WILL STILL REMAIN AROUND 10-15 MPH TODAY.

$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 10:21 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Bucks, Philadelphia	41 hr
Jan 8, 2:58 PM EST	River Flood Warning	PHI	Bucks	30 hr
Jan 8, 5:04 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Northampton	42 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Pennsylvania, 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.