Alert archive / West Virginia / Wind Chill Advisories in 2017
Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 27, 2017, 1:34 PM EST for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 27, 2017, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 27, 2017, 1:34 PM EST (18:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 27, 2017, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2017, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Counties Preston County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 107 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Wind Chill Advisories in West Virginia, 2017Every wind chill advisory in 2017
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.