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Winter Weather Advisory 23, NWS State College, PA

November 22, 2021McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this winter weather advisory at Nov 22, 2021, 4:54 AM EST for McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 22, 2021, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 2021, 4:54 AM EST (09:54 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 22, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Nov 23, 2021, 2:08 PM EST
In force
22 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 09:54 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 00:00Z, 9.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2021-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2021-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 362 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Nov 22, 3:11 AM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 22, 3:11 AM EST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 6:26 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair, Cambria, Centre, Columbia, Huntingdon, Juniata and 7 more79 min

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2021Every winter weather advisory in 2021

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.