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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

May 25, 2011Clinton County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2011, 11:55 PM EDT for Clinton County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 80 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: May 25, 2011, 11:55 PM EDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2011, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 80 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties Clinton County, PA, Tioga County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -176 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 471 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.

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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 May 25, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 10:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 8:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 8:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
810 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2011

PAZ004-260200-
WARREN PA-
810 PM EDT WED MAY 25 2011

...A LINE OF STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE
PENNSYLVANIA...OHIO STATE LINE WILL AFFECT WESTERN WARREN COUNTY
BETWEEN 920 PM AND 10 PM EDT...

AT 801 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ACROSS
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN OHIO...JUST TO THE WEST OF CONNEAUT AND ANDOVER
OHIO. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 45
MPH.

WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 50 AND 55 MPH...AND PEA TO PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR SPRING CREEK
AROUND 930 PM...SUGAR GROVE AROUND 945 PM AND RUSSELL AROUND 1000 PM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6...ROUTE 62.

LAT...LON 4200 7905 4196 7906 4176 7932 4162 7946
      4162 7961 4163 7962 4197 7962 4200 7961

FORECASTER: LAMBERT

Local storm report, May 25, 10:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 10:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 11:29 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 11:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	110 min
May 25, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	56 min
May 25, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean, Warren	61 min
May 25, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cameron, Elk	80 min
May 25, 11:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean, Potter	65 min
May 25, 11:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean, Potter, Tioga	66 min
May 26, 12:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga	62 min
May 26, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	64 min
May 26, 2:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	50 min
May 26, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Northumberland, Snyder	36 min
May 26, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union	56 min
May 26, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	62 min
May 26, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	49 min
May 26, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	26 min
May 26, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	64 min
May 26, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin, Fulton	76 min
May 26, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill	56 min
May 26, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland	66 min
May 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton	68 min
May 26, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon	60 min
May 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clinton	55 min
May 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Elk, Somerset	55 min
May 26, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	41 min
May 26, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Franklin, Juniata, Perry	56 min
May 26, 6:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton	49 min
May 26, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk and 3 more	62 min
May 26, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	61 min
May 26, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lebanon, Northumberland and 3 more	65 min
May 26, 6:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, York	3 hr
May 26, 7:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Franklin, Fulton	3 hr
May 26, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Tioga	67 min
May 26, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill	62 min
May 26, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and 1 more	56 min
May 26, 7:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill	36 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.