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Wind Advisory 3, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind advisory at Feb 29, 2016, 2:18 AM EST for Cambria County, Clearfield County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2016, 2:18 AM EST (07:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2016, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 520 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
895 WWUS71 KCTP 290718 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 218 AM EST MON FEB 29 2016 PAZ017-024-033-291500- /O.NEW.KCTP.WI.Y.0003.160229T0718Z-160229T1500Z/ CLEARFIELD-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DUBOIS...CLEARFIELD...JOHNSTOWN... SOMERSET 218 AM EST MON FEB 29 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST SWITCHING TO WEST-NORTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH POSSIBLE ON THE HIGHEST ELEVATIONS. * TIMING...THIS MORNING...MAINLY DURING RAIN SHOWERS WHICH WILL PRECEDE AND ACCOMPANY A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. * IMPACTS...VERY ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES DUE TO DOWNED LIMBS OR WIRES. DIFFICULTY DRIVING 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
847 WWUS71 KCTP 291521 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1021 AM EST MON FEB 29 2016 PAZ017-024-033-291630- /O.EXP.KCTP.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160229T1500Z/ CLEARFIELD-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DUBOIS...CLEARFIELD...JOHNSTOWN... SOMERSET 1021 AM EST MON FEB 29 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... PEAK WIND GUSTS WILL DECREASE A BIT TODAY. HOWEVER...IT WILL STAY QUITE BREEZY WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS CONTINUING TO GUST BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH THROUGH MUCH OF THIS AFTERNOON AS COOLER AIR MOVES INTO THE REGION. $$ 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.