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High Wind Watch 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this high wind watch at Dec 22, 2022, 3:22 AM EST for 12 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 23, 2022, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 22, 2022, 3:22 AM EST (08:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 23, 2022, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2022, 6:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Dec 22, 12:59 AM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 12:59 AM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 1:03 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 11 more | 48 hr |
| Dec 22, 1:03 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 60 hr |
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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.