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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 1:14 AM EDT for Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 31 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 11, 2011, 1:14 AM EDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2011, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 967 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 Jun 10, 9:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 9:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 2:22 PM EDT, 10 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 222 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2011 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-111830- 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- 222 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 1:14 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
114 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
PAZ026-027-110545-
HUNTINGDON PA-MIFFLIN PA-
114 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN HUNTINGDON AND WESTERN
MIFFLIN COUNTIES...
AT 109 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ALEXANDRIA...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID
RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR PETERSBURG
AROUND 120 AM AND ALLENSVILLE AROUND 150 AM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 22...ROUTE
22/522...STATE ROAD 453.
LAT...LON 4051 7815 4056 7814 4053 7817 4054 7817
4065 7816 4073 7778 4072 7778 4073 7772
4072 7771 4074 7767 4046 7767
FORECASTER: CERUThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 3:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 5:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Lancaster, Lebanon, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 6:44 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 8 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:44 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 8 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Jun 11, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 22 min |
| Jun 11, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 23 min |
| Jun 11, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 68 min |
| Jun 11, 7:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 7:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 49 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.