Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 5, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind advisory at Oct 27, 2015, 1:11 PM EDT for Cambria County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 28, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 2015, 1:11 PM EDT (17:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 28, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2015, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
431 WWUS71 KCTP 271711 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 111 PM EDT TUE OCT 27 2015 PAZ024-033-281000- /O.NEW.KCTP.WI.Y.0005.151028T0600Z-151028T1500Z/ CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...SOMERSET 111 PM EDT TUE OCT 27 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 11 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 11 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THE HIGHEST GUSTS ARE LIKELY OVER THE RIDGES AND IMMEDIATELY TO THEIR WEST. * PERIOD OF STRONGEST WINDS...4 AM TO 9 AM WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...SCATTERED TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHEST GUSTS. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$ RXR
2 follow-up statements
397 WWUS71 KCTP 280516 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 116 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015 PAZ024-033-281500- /O.CON.KCTP.WI.Y.0005.151028T0600Z-151028T1500Z/ CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...SOMERSET 116 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * WINDS...SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH. THE HIGHEST GUSTS ARE LIKELY ON TOP OF THE RIDGES AND IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST OF EACH RIDGE. * PERIOD OF STRONGEST WINDS...4 AM TO 9 AM WEDNESDAY. * IMPACTS...SCATTERED TREE AND POWER LINE DAMAGE CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHEST GUSTS. TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 31 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 46 AND 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED. MOTORISTS IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION AND CONSIDER AVOIDING AREAS EXPOSED TO STRONG CROSS-WINDS. SECURE LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS THAT MAY BE BLOWN AWAY IF NOT STORED OR TIED DOWN. FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION...GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE OR MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO. && $$
122 WWUS71 KCTP 281512 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1112 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015 PAZ024-033-281615- /O.EXP.KCTP.WI.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-151028T1500Z/ CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSTOWN...SOMERSET 1112 AM EDT WED OCT 28 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO AVERAGE 15 TO 25 MPH...AND OCCASIONALLY GUST BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH ARE NOT EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAYLIGHT HOURS TODAY. $$ LAMBERT
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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.