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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

July 25, 2011Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 25, 2011, 5:29 PM EDT for 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: Jul 25, 2011, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Schuylkill County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 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 25, 4:37 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 4:37 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 5:08 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
427 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2011

PAZ019-027-028-049-050-052-252115-
JUNIATA PA-MIFFLIN PA-NORTHUMBERLAND PA-SNYDER PA-SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-
UNION PA-
427 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2011

...A LINE OF GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL CENTRE...
NORTHEASTERN JUNIATA...NORTHEASTERN MIFFLIN...NORTHUMBERLAND...SNYDER
AND UNION COUNTIES...

AT 424 PM EDT...A LINE OF GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
SPRUCE RUN RESERVOIR TO POE VALLEY STATE PARK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS
WILL BE NEAR LINNTOWN AROUND 440 PM...MONTANDON AROUND 450 PM...
SUNBURY AROUND 500 PM...SNYDERTOWN AROUND 510 PM AND RESLER AROUND
520 PM.

THIS WILL IMPACT I-80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 195 AND 206.

THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...STATE HIGHWAY
147...ROUTE 11...ROUTE 11/15...ROUTE 15...ROUTE 322/22...ROUTE 522...
STATE ROAD 45...STATE ROAD 61.

LAT...LON 4069 7660 4061 7694 4063 7697 4061 7702
      4059 7717 4056 7717 4053 7731 4082 7764
      4103 7720 4104 7715 4108 7710 4110 7697
      4098 7678 4095 7679 4095 7673 4076 7641

FORECASTER: RXR

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:55 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:15 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:20 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 25, 5:24 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 5:29 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
Jul 24, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Mifflin	26 min
Jul 24, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Union	33 min
Jul 24, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Montour	33 min
Jul 25, 7:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Elk	76 min
Jul 25, 8:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Potter	69 min
Jul 25, 8:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Potter	41 min
Jul 25, 10:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Somerset	33 min
Jul 25, 10:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	28 min
Jul 25, 11:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams, Cumberland	28 min
Jul 25, 11:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams, Cumberland	26 min
Jul 25, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, York	54 min
Jul 25, 12:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, York	3 hr
Jul 25, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean, Warren	45 min
Jul 25, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean, Potter, Warren	65 min
Jul 25, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	York	56 min
Jul 25, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon	31 min
Jul 25, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter, Tioga	53 min
Jul 25, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	61 min
Jul 25, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Columbia, Schuylkill	4 hr
Jul 25, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	38 min
Jul 25, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan and 1 more	47 min
Jul 25, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre	44 min
Jul 25, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Northumberland, Snyder, Union	48 min
Jul 25, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Sullivan and 1 more	77 min
Jul 25, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin	50 min
Jul 25, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	30 min
Jul 25, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Dauphin, Juniata, Perry	40 min
Jul 25, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	50 min
Jul 25, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	32 min

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.