Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Wind Chill Watches in 2018
Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this wind chill watch at Jan 3, 2018, 3:29 AM EST for 13 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 4, 2018, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2018, 3:29 AM EST (08:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2018, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2018, 3:46 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill watch went out at Jan 3, 1:39 AM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 1:39 AM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:36 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Warren, York | 64 hr |
Nearby
Wind Chill Watches in Pennsylvania, 2018Every wind chill watch in 2018
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.