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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jan 19, 2012, 7:15 PM EST for 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 90 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 19, 2012, 7:15 PM EST (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2012, 8:45 PM EST
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cameron County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:15 PM EST, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 19, 8:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton and 2 more | 86 min |
| Jan 20, 4:28 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Cambria, Fulton, Somerset | 30 hr |
| Jan 20, 4:28 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CTP | Adams, Blair, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton and 23 more | 30 hr |
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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.