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Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 15, 2016, 10:14 PM EST for 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2016, 10:14 PM EST (03:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2016, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clinton County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freezing rain advisory went out at Jan 15, 7:42 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 7:42 PM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 3:34 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Watch | CTP | McKean, Warren | 22 hr |
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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.