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Winter Weather Advisory 21, NWS State College, PA

November 16, 2022Somerset County, Warren County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this winter weather advisory at Nov 16, 2022, 3:40 AM EST for Somerset County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 16, 2022, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 16, 2022, 3:40 AM EST (08:40 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 16, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Nov 17, 2022, 2:28 PM EST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Somerset County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 2022-11-16Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2022-11-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 207 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
697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
92 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 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.