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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 5, 2015, 3:50 AM EST for 13 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 5, 2015, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2015, 3:50 AM EST (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2015, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2015Every wind chill 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.