Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 3, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind advisory at Feb 2, 2015, 11:38 AM EST for 17 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2015, 11:38 AM EST (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2015, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Somerset County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 515 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 487 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
400 WWUS71 KCTP 021638 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1138 AM EST MON FEB 2 2015 PAZ024>028-033>036-056>059-063>066-030045- /O.NEW.KCTP.WI.Y.0003.150202T1638Z-150203T0100Z/ CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK- LANCASTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...ALTOONA...HUNTINGDON... MOUNT UNION...LEWISTOWN...MIFFLINTOWN...SOMERSET...BEDFORD... MCCONNELLSBURG...CHAMBERSBURG...NEWPORT...HARRISBURG...HERSHEY... POTTSVILLE...LEBANON...CARLISLE...GETTYSBURG...YORK...LANCASTER 1138 AM EST MON FEB 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 OR 50 MPH. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE. THE GUSTY WINDS MAY LEAD TO ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES AS THERE COULD STILL BE SOME TREES AND POWER LINES WEIGHTED DOWN WITH SNOW AND ICE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION AND CONSIDER AVOIDING AREAS EXPOSED TO STRONG CROSS-WINDS. SECURE LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS THAT MAY BE BLOWN AWAY IF NOT STORED OR TIED DOWN. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION...GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE OR MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. && $$
2 follow-up statements
316 WWUS71 KCTP 021942 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 242 PM EST MON FEB 2 2015 PAZ024>028-033>036-056>059-063>066-030100- /O.CON.KCTP.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-150203T0100Z/ CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK- LANCASTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...ALTOONA...HUNTINGDON... MOUNT UNION...LEWISTOWN...MIFFLINTOWN...SOMERSET...BEDFORD... MCCONNELLSBURG...CHAMBERSBURG...NEWPORT...HARRISBURG...HERSHEY... POTTSVILLE...LEBANON...CARLISLE...GETTYSBURG...YORK...LANCASTER 242 PM EST MON FEB 2 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WINDS...NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 45 TO 50 MPH. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE. THE GUSTY WINDS MAY LEAD TO ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES AS THERE COULD STILL BE SOME TREES AND POWER LINES WEIGHTED DOWN WITH SNOW AND ICE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION AND CONSIDER AVOIDING AREAS EXPOSED TO STRONG CROSS-WINDS. SECURE LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS THAT MAY BE BLOWN AWAY IF NOT STORED OR TIED DOWN. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION...GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE OR MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. && $$
756 WWUS71 KCTP 030107 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 807 PM EST MON FEB 2 2015 PAZ024>028-033>036-056>059-063>066-030215- /O.EXP.KCTP.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-150203T0100Z/ CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK- LANCASTER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...ALTOONA...HUNTINGDON... MOUNT UNION...LEWISTOWN...MIFFLINTOWN...SOMERSET...BEDFORD... MCCONNELLSBURG...CHAMBERSBURG...NEWPORT...HARRISBURG...HERSHEY... POTTSVILLE...LEBANON...CARLISLE...GETTYSBURG...YORK...LANCASTER 807 PM EST MON FEB 2 2015 ...THE WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT IN THE WAKE OF STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE NEAR CAPE COD. HOWEVER...PEAK WIND GUSTS WILL REMAIN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...AND GENERALLY IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE. $$ LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:48 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | CTP | Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia and 8 more | 17 hr |
Nearby
Wind Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2015Every wind advisory in 2015
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.