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Extreme Cold Warning 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this extreme cold warning at Jan 19, 2025, 3:38 AM EST for Cambria County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 20, 2025, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 41 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2025, 3:38 AM EST (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 20, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2025, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 41 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 300 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 142 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 3:38 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 3 days |
| Jan 19, 12:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 62 min |
| Jan 19, 1:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry and 1 more | 53 min |
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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.