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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

March 18, 2023Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this wind chill advisory at Mar 18, 2023, 12:27 AM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 18, 2023, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 2023, 12:27 AM EDT (04:27 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 18, 2023, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired
Mar 19, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA

County Tucker County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2023-03-18Temperature 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 2023-03-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 1:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBeaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango38 min
Mar 18, 1:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZAllegheny, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson and 4 more49 min
Mar 18, 2:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZBeaver, Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango60 min
Mar 18, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZArmstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson60 min
Mar 18, 12:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZCoshocton, Muskingum, Tuscarawas39 min

Nearby

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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.