Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Chill Advisories in 2015
Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 5, 2015, 3:28 PM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 5, 2015, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2015, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2015, 9:58 AM EST
- In force
- 15 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 20:33 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
289 WWUS41 KPHI 052028 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 328 PM EST THU FEB 5 2015 PAZ054-055-061000- /O.NEW.KPHI.WC.Y.0004.150206T0000Z-150206T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 328 PM EST THU FEB 5 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EST FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EST FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...THE POCONOS. * HAZARD TYPES...DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILLS. * WIND CHILL READINGS...AS LOW AS AROUND 15 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. * TIMING...LOWEST WIND CHILLS SHOULD OCCUR BETWEEN 10 P.M THURSDAY EVENING AND 8 A.M. FRIDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...LOW WIND CHILLS WILL ACCELERATE THE POTENTIAL FOR FROST BITE OR HYPOTHERMIA IF THE PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. * WINDS...WEST TO NORTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH DIMINISHING TOWARD FRIDAY MORNING. * LOW TEMPERATURES...AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW ZERO ON FRIDAY 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
735 WWUS41 KPHI 060233 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 933 PM EST THU FEB 5 2015 PAZ054-055-061045- /O.CON.KPHI.WC.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150206T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 933 PM EST THU FEB 5 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST FRIDAY... * HAZARD TYPES...DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILLS. * WIND CHILL READINGS...AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 BELOW. * TIMING...LOWEST WIND CHILLS WILL OCCUR THROUGH 8 A.M. FRIDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...LOW WIND CHILLS WILL ACCELERATE THE POTENTIAL FOR FROST BITE OR HYPOTHERMIA IF THE PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. * WINDS...NORTHWEST 5 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. * LOW TEMPERATURES...ZERO TO 5 BELOW ZERO ON FRIDAY MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$
686 WWUS41 KPHI 060840 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 340 AM EST FRI FEB 6 2015 PAZ054-055-061500- /O.CON.KPHI.WC.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150206T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 340 AM EST FRI FEB 6 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING... * HAZARD TYPE...DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. * WIND CHILL READINGS...AS LOW AS 15 TO 20 BELOW ZERO. * IMPACTS...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR FROST BITE OR HYPOTHERMIA IF THE PROPER PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. * WINDS...NORTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 15 MPH. * LOW TEMPERATURES...ZERO TO 5 BELOW ZERO EARLY THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR WILL COMBINE WITH THE WIND TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR FROST BITE AND HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU GO OUT, MAKE SURE TO DRESS PROPERLY FOR THE EXTREME COLD. && $$ IOVINO
100 WWUS41 KPHI 061458 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 958 AM EST FRI FEB 6 2015 PAZ054-055-061600- /O.CAN.KPHI.WC.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150206T1500Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 958 AM EST FRI FEB 6 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN THIS MORNING INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS AND TEENS. THIS HAS BROUGHT THE WIND CHILLS UP INTO THE THE -5 TO -10 RANGE. WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE TODAY AS TEMPERATURES WARM. $$ GAINES
Nearby
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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.