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Winter Weather Advisory 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

March 3, 2023Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 3, 2023, 3:52 AM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Mar 3, 2023, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2023, 3:52 AM EST (08:52 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 3, 2023, 3:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 4, 2023, 3:37 AM EST
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2023-03-03Temperature 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2023-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -76 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 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
1348 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
105 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-104 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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Mar 3, 12:23 AM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 12:23 AM EST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 3:49 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more38 hr
Mar 3, 3:49 AM ESTWind AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean35 hr
Mar 3, 9:26 AM ESTCoastal Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean21 hr
Mar 3, 3:07 PM ESTWind AdvisoryPHICumberland, Gloucester, Salem24 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.