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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

June 30, 2009Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2009, 12:07 PM EDT for Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2009, 12:07 PM EDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2009, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Huntingdon County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS81 KCTP 301607
SPSCTP

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1207 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2009

PAZ026-034>036-056-301700-
BEDFORD PA-FRANKLIN PA-FULTON PA-HUNTINGDON PA-PERRY PA-
1207 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL BEDFORD...NORTH
CENTRAL FRANKLIN...NORTHEASTERN FULTON...SOUTHERN HUNTINGDON AND 
SOUTHWESTERN PERRY COUNTIES THROUGH 1 PM EDT...

AT 1204 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A LINE FROM 
ORBISONIA...TO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROAD TOP CITY...TO 
BREEZEWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE 
STORMS. EXPECT OCCASIONAL..DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM 
THESE STORMS. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES 
WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM 
APPROACHES. 

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR THREE SPRINGS AROUND 1220 PM...WATERFALL
AROUND 1230 PM...BIG SPRING STATE PARK AROUND 1240 PM...SHADE GAP
AROUND 1250 PM AND DOYLESBURG AROUND 100 PM.

THIS WILL IMPACT ROUTE 522.

LAT...LON 4007 7828 4016 7823 4029 7791 4031 7773
      4027 7770 4031 7766 4035 7738 4010 7788

$$
EXPERIMENTAL

FORECASTER: LAMBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 10:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	25 min
Jun 30, 7:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Montour	73 min
Jun 30, 8:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	61 min
Jun 30, 10:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Union	54 min
Jun 30, 10:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Snyder	35 min
Jun 30, 10:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Montour	53 min
Jun 30, 10:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Montour	51 min
Jun 30, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Huntingdon	47 min
Jun 30, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill	60 min
Jun 30, 11:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams	61 min
Jun 30, 12:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Dauphin, Lebanon, York	69 min
Jun 30, 12:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York	78 min
Jun 30, 12:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Franklin	39 min
Jun 30, 12:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams, Lancaster, York	81 min
Jun 30, 12:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	54 min
Jun 30, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	33 min
Jun 30, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cumberland	46 min
Jun 30, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill	76 min
Jun 30, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cameron, Elk	27 min
Jun 30, 1:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cameron, Elk	3 hr
Jun 30, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	29 min
Jun 30, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	79 min
Jun 30, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster, Lebanon, York	66 min
Jun 30, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	40 min
Jun 30, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	46 min
Jun 30, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	York	26 min
Jun 30, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	38 min
Jun 30, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	38 min
Jun 30, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	34 min
Jun 30, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Tioga	55 min
Jun 30, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Montour	23 min
Jun 30, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	25 min
Jun 30, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin	32 min
Jun 30, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Northumberland	30 min
Jun 30, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	31 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.