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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

September 30, 20178 counties in Pennsylvania; Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this frost advisory at Sep 30, 2017, 1:01 PM EDT for 8 counties in Pennsylvania; Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Oct 1, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 30, 2017, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 1, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 1, 2017, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA

Counties Armstrong County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2017-09-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2017-09-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.