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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jan 3, 2012, 5:03 AM EST for Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 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
- Jan 3, 2012, 5:03 AM EST (10:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2012, 5:45 AM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 3, 4:55 AM EST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 4:55 AM EST, 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 3, 4:18 AM EST, 45 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 418 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012 PAZ004-005-040930- WARREN-MCKEAN- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012 ...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL WHEN THEY REACH A TOTAL OF 3 INCHES...SIX INCHES AND THEN A STORM TOTAL AS THE STORM ENDS. PAZ006-010-011-017-040930- POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-CLEARFIELD- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EST TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL WHEN THEY REACH A TOTAL OF 3 INCHES...SIX INCHES AND THEN A STORM TOTAL AS THE STORM ENDS. PAZ024-033-040930- CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER STORM WARNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL WHEN THEY REACH A TOTAL OF 3 INCHES...SIX INCHES AND THEN A STORM TOTAL AS THE STORM ENDS. PAZ012-018-019-025>028-034-035-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-058- 040930- NORTHERN CLINTON-NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON- MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-BEDFORD-FULTON-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN- SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-SCHUYLKILL- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS AND BRIEF...HEAVY SNOW SQUALLS WILL BE DRIFTING SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION IN NARROW BANDS TODAY. VISIBILITY COULD BE BRIEFLY LOWERED TO LESS THAN ONE QUARTER OF A MILE...CREATING HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL WILL RANGE FROM JUST A COATING IN MANY LOCATIONS...TO BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES IN PLACES THAT SEE HEAVIER SQUALLS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ036-056-057-059-063>066-040930- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 418 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. LAMBERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 3, 3:45 AM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
345 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012
PAZ017>019-030930-
CLEARFIELD PA-NORTHERN CENTRE PA-SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-
345 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT CLEARFIELD AND SOUTHWESTERN CENTRE
COUNTIES...
AT 340 AM EST...A SNOW SQUALL WAS LOCATED FROM BROOKVILLE TO 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CLEARFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SNOW SQUALL. THE SNOW
WILL RAPIDLY DROP VISIBILITIES IN THIS SNOW SQUALL TO LESS THAN A
QUARTER OF A MILE. THE SNOW WILL FALL ONTO WARM ROAD SURFACES...WHICH
WILL CAUSE IT TO QUICKLY MELT AND THEN RE-FREEZE. THIS COULD CREATE
VERY ICY CONDITIONS IF THE ROAD SURFACE IS UNTREATED. THIS SNOW
SQUALL WILL AFFECT DUBOIS...CLEARFIELD...OSCEOLA MILLS...
TROUTVILLE...SANDY RIDGE...GRAMPIAN AND HOUTZDALE.
THIS WILL IMPACT I-80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 97 AND 128.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 119...ROUTE
219...ROUTE 220...ROUTE 322...STATE ROAD 153...STATE ROAD 350.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THIS
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SNOW SQUALL.
LAT...LON 4113 7881 4120 7878 4121 7876 4121 7873
4092 7806 4074 7811 4073 7832 4082 7881
FORECASTER: RXRSpecial weather statement, Jan 3, 5:03 AM EST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
503 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012
PAZ017>019-025>027-031045-
BLAIR PA-CLEARFIELD PA-HUNTINGDON PA-MIFFLIN PA-NORTHERN CENTRE PA-
SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-
503 AM EST TUE JAN 3 2012
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MIFFLIN...NORTHEASTERN BLAIR...
NORTHERN HUNTINGDON...SOUTH CENTRAL CLEARFIELD AND SOUTHWESTERN
CENTRE COUNTIES...
AT 454 AM EST...A SNOW SQUALL WAS LOCATED FROM TYRONE TO LEWISTOWN...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SNOW SQUALL.
VISIBILITIES MAY DROP QUICKLY AND ROADS MAY QUICKLY BECOME ICY.
THIS SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT BALD EAGLE...WARRIORS MARK...
FRANKLINVILLE...PETERSBURG AND ALLENSVILLE.
THIS WILL IMPACT I-99 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 45 AND 63.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 22...ROUTE
22/522...ROUTE 220...ROUTE 322...STATE ROAD 350...STATE ROAD 453.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THIS
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SNOW SQUALL.
LAT...LON 4053 7813 4069 7838 4072 7835 4073 7840
4087 7834 4085 7808 4069 7783 4060 7766
4053 7759 4049 7762 4042 7771
FORECASTER: RXRThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 7:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon | 30 min |
| Jan 2, 9:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Union | 53 min |
| Jan 2, 10:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield, Elk | 60 min |
| Jan 2, 10:24 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 21 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 45 min |
| Jan 3, 6:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 71 min |
| Jan 3, 7:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 56 min |
| Jan 3, 8:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 55 min |
| Jan 3, 11:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 62 min |
| Jan 3, 12:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 67 min |
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Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.