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Wind Chill Advisory 10, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 22, 2015, 3:40 PM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 23, 2015, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2015, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2015, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2015, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 30 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 20:43 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 12:00Z, 8.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 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.
473 WWUS41 KPHI 222040 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 340 PM EST SUN FEB 22 2015 PAZ054-055-230945- /O.NEW.KPHI.WC.Y.0010.150223T0900Z-150224T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 340 PM EST SUN FEB 22 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM MONDAY TO 10 AM EST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM MONDAY TO 10 AM EST TUESDAY. * LOCATIONS...THE POCONOS. * WIND CHILL...AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 BELOW ZERO. * TIMING...THE LOWEST WIND CHILLS WILL OCCUR ON MONDAY MORNING AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA ARE POSSIBLE IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. * LOW TEMPERATURES...IN THE SINGLE NUMBERS ON MONDAY MORNING AND ZERO TO TEN BELOW ZERO ON TUESDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$
3 follow-up statements
753 WWUS41 KPHI 230901 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 401 AM EST MON FEB 23 2015 PAZ054-055-232115- /O.CON.KPHI.WC.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-150224T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 401 AM EST MON FEB 23 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST TUESDAY... * LOCATIONS...THE POCONOS. * WIND CHILL...DROPPING TO 10 BELOW LATER THIS MORNING AND BETWEEN 15 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW LATE TONIGHT. * TIMING...THE LOWEST WIND CHILLS WILL OCCUR LATER THIS MORNING AS AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT SLIDES THROUGH AND THE WINDS INCREASE. ANOTHER COLD NIGHT, WITH LESS WIND, IS EXPECTED TONIGHT AS WIND CHILLS WILL BE BETWEEN 15 TO 20 BELOW. * IMPACTS...FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA ARE POSSIBLE IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. * TEMPERATURES...DROPPING INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS BY LATER THIS MORNING AND ZERO TO TEN BELOW ZERO ON TUESDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$
488 WWUS41 KPHI 232018 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 318 PM EST MON FEB 23 2015 PAZ054-055-241500- /O.CON.KPHI.WC.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-150224T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 318 PM EST MON FEB 23 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST TUESDAY... * LOCATIONS...THE POCONOS. * WIND CHILL...AS LOW AS 20 BELOW ZERO. * TIMING...ANOTHER COLD NIGHT...WITH LESS WIND...IS EXPECTED TONIGHT AS WIND CHILLS WILL BE BETWEEN 15 TO 20 BELOW. * IMPACTS...FROSTBITE AND HYPOTHERMIA ARE POSSIBLE IF PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. * TEMPERATURES...5 TO 10 BELOW ZERO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$
187 WWUS41 KPHI 241445 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 945 AM EST TUE FEB 24 2015 PAZ054-055-241545- /O.EXP.KPHI.WC.Y.0010.000000T0000Z-150224T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 945 AM EST TUE FEB 24 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 AM EST THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE INTO THE LOW TO MID TEENS TODAY AND WIND CHILLS WILL REBOUND SLIGHTLY, SO THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. WIND CHILLS FOR MANY PLACES WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN THE NEGATIVE SINGLE DIGITS. $$ ROBERTSON
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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.