Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Advisories in 2017
Wind Advisory 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind advisory at Jan 9, 2017, 2:08 PM EST for McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 10, 2017, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2017, 2:08 PM EST (19:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2017, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2017, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties McKean County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
143 WWUS71 KCTP 091908 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 208 PM EST MON JAN 9 2017 PAZ004-005-101200- /O.NEW.KCTP.WI.Y.0001.170110T1800Z-170111T0800Z/ WARREN-MCKEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARREN...BRADFORD 208 PM EST MON JAN 9 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TUESDAY TO 3 AM EST WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TUESDAY TO 3 AM EST WEDNESDAY. * WINDS...INCREASING FROM THE SOUTH TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH RIDGETOP GUSTS OVER 45 MPH. * TIMING...TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT. * IMPACTS...GUSTY WINDS WILL BLOW AROUND UNSECURED OBJECTS. TREE LIMBS COULD BE BLOWN DOWN AND A FEW POWER OUTAGES MAY RESULT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REVIEW WIND SAFETY AND PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION AT WEATHER.GOV/WIND. && $$ DEVOIR
3 follow-up statements
048 WWUS71 KCTP 101034 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 534 AM EST TUE JAN 10 2017 PAZ004-005-101845- /O.EXT.KCTP.WI.Y.0001.170110T1800Z-170111T0600Z/ WARREN-MCKEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARREN...BRADFORD 534 AM EST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST WEDNESDAY... * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH LOCALIZED GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY BLOW DOWN TREE LIMBS...CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REVIEW WIND SAFETY AND PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION AT WEATHER.GOV/WIND. && $$
006 WWUS71 KCTP 101714 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1214 PM EST TUE JAN 10 2017 .STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER GREAT LAKES WILL PUSH A CORE OF STRONG SOUTH-SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ACROSS THE REGION, MAINLY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. PAZ004-005-110115- /O.CON.KCTP.WI.Y.0001.170110T1800Z-170111T0600Z/ WARREN-MCKEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARREN...BRADFORD 1214 PM EST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST WEDNESDAY... * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH LOCALIZED GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY BLOW DOWN TREE LIMBS...CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REVIEW WIND SAFETY AND PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION AT WEATHER.GOV/WIND. && $$ LAMBERT
588 WWUS71 KCTP 110101 NPWCTP URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 801 PM EST TUE JAN 10 2017 .STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER GREAT LAKES WILL PUSH A CORE OF STRONG SOUTH-SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ACROSS THE REGION... MAINLY LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. PAZ004-005-110600- /O.CON.KCTP.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-170111T0600Z/ WARREN-MCKEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARREN...BRADFORD 801 PM EST TUE JAN 10 2017 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST WEDNESDAY... * WINDS...SOUTH 15 TO 20 MPH WITH LOCALIZED GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH. * TIMING...THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS MAY BLOW DOWN TREE LIMBS...CAUSING ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REVIEW WIND SAFETY AND PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION AT WEATHER.GOV/WIND. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2:41 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 37 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.