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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

July 8, 2011McKean County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2011, 7:14 AM EDT for McKean 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: Jul 8, 2011, 7:14 AM EDT (11:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2011, 8:15 AM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County McKean County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:14 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 336 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: 276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 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 Jul 8, 4:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 4:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 4:08 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
408 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>035-037-041-042-045-046-
049>053-056>059-063-090815-
WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD-
NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-
JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-
SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-
NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-
408 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

PAZ036-064>066-090815-
FRANKLIN-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER-
408 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS THE AREA WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS
FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP TODAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT
RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:14 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
714 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

PAZ004-005-081215-
MCKEAN PA-WARREN PA-
714 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MCKEAN AND EAST CENTRAL
WARREN COUNTIES THROUGH 815 AM EDT...

AT 710 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR LUDLOW...MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
EXPECT FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THIS
STORM. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN
LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR WETMORE...AND KANE AROUND 720
AM...WESTLINE...AND MARSHBURG AROUND 730 AM...MOUNT JEWETT AROUND
740 AM...CYCLONE...AND KINZUA BRIDGE STATE PARK AROUND 750 AM...REW
AROUND 800 AM AND SMETHPORT AROUND 810 AM.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6...ROUTE 219...
STATE ROAD 46...STATE ROAD 59...STATE ROAD 66...STATE ROAD 446.

LAT...LON 4197 7838 4166 7839 4164 7898 4173 7905
      4185 7905

FORECASTER: LAMBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	56 min
Jul 8, 7:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	53 min
Jul 8, 8:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Potter	52 min
Jul 8, 11:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, York	3 hr
Jul 8, 11:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York	7 hr
Jul 8, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Snyder	64 min
Jul 8, 1:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Perry	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, York	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Union	64 min
Jul 8, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	52 min
Jul 8, 4:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Tioga	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.