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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2009, 2:14 AM EDT for Lebanon County, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 2, 2009, 2:14 AM EDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2009, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Lebanon County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 2:00 AM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:00 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 927 AM EDT SAT AUG 1 2009 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-021330- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN- JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING- SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 927 AM EDT SAT AUG 1 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 11:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 1, 11:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 12:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 4:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster, York | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 5:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 5:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, York | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 7:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 8:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 8:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 9:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin | 68 min |
| Aug 2, 7:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 107 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2009Every special weather statement in 2009
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.