Alert archive / West Virginia / Freezing Rain Advisories in 2016
Freezing Rain Advisory 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 16, 2016, 8:26 PM EST for Fayette County, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; Monongalia County, Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2016, 8:26 PM EST (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2016, 4:04 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Fayette County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Monongalia County, WV, Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 4:04 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | PBZ | Forest, Venango | 38 hr |
| Jan 17, 4:04 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 8 more | 57 hr |
| Jan 17, 5:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion | 61 min |
| Jan 17, 6:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | Indiana, Jefferson | 47 min |
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.