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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2011, 2:07 AM EDT for Northumberland County, Snyder 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
- Jul 3, 2011, 2:07 AM EDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2011, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Northumberland County, PA, Snyder County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
553
WWUS81 KCTP 030607
SPSCTP
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
207 AM EDT SUN JUL 3 2011
PAZ028-049-050-052-056>058-030700-
DAUPHIN PA-JUNIATA PA-NORTHUMBERLAND PA-PERRY PA-SCHUYLKILL PA-
SNYDER PA-UNION PA-
207 AM EDT SUN JUL 3 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN SNYDER...NORTHEASTERN
JUNIATA...NORTHEASTERN PERRY...NORTHERN DAUPHIN...SOUTH CENTRAL
UNION...SOUTHERN NORTHUMBERLAND AND WEST CENTRAL SCHUYLKILL
COUNTIES...
AT 204 AM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR
SELINSGROVE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR RESLER AROUND 220 AM...HERNDON AROUND 230
AM...REBUCK AROUND 240 AM...URBAN AROUND 250 AM AND GRATZ AROUND 300
AM.
THESE STORMS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...STATE HIGHWAY
147...ROUTE 11...ROUTE 11/15...ROUTE 15...ROUTE 209...ROUTE
322/22...ROUTE 522...STATE ROAD 61.
LAT...LON 4058 7641 4055 7653 4056 7654 4054 7656
4040 7703 4089 7713 4095 7679
$$
FORECASTER: MARTINThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan, Tioga | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 1:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 2:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, Snyder | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 3:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, York | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 47 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.