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Frost Advisory 5, NWS State College, PA

May 20, 202016 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this frost advisory at May 20, 2020, 1:14 PM EDT for 16 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 21, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 20, 2020, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
In effect from
May 21, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 21, 2020, 7:20 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Potter County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-05-20Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-18 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.