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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Cleveland, OH

February 2, 2023Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 2, 2023, 3:26 AM EST for Crawford County, Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 3, 2023, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 2, 2023, 3:26 AM EST (08:26 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 3, 2023, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 4, 2023, 3:22 AM EST
In force: 23 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 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 wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Feb 2, 12:26 AM EST, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 2, 12:26 AM EST, 3 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 1, 3:36 PM EST, 11 hours 50 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 2, 3:55 AM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	CLE		42 hr
Feb 2, 12:33 PM EST	Gale Warning	CLE		11 hr
Feb 2, 2:47 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	CLE	Crawford, Erie	31 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.