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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Feb 11, 2012, 5:57 PM EST for 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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
- Feb 11, 2012, 5:57 PM EST (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 2012, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Centre County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Union County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 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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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 Feb 11, 5:26 PM EST, 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 5:26 PM EST, 31 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 257 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 PAZ024-033-122000- CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- 257 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SUNDAY... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ005-006-010>012-017>019-026>028-037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-122000- MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-TIOGA- NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION- SNYDER-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL- LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 257 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PREVIOUSLY WET ROADS MAY BECOME ICY AS COLD AIR POURS TONIGHT. UNTREATED ROADS WILL GET SLIPPERY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ025-034>036-122000- BLAIR-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN- 257 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ004-122000- WARREN- 257 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 4:51 PM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
451 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012
PAZ006-012-019-037-041-045-046-049>052-112300-
MONTOUR PA-NORTHERN CLINTON PA-NORTHERN LYCOMING PA-NORTHUMBERLAND
PA-POTTER PA-SNYDER PA-SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-SOUTHERN CLINTON
PA-SOUTHERN LYCOMING PA-TIOGA PA-UNION PA-
451 PM EST SAT FEB 11 2012
...SNOW SQUALLS WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES THROUGH 6 PM
EST...CLINTON...EASTERN CENTRE...NORTHEASTERN SNYDER...
NORTHUMBERLAND...SOUTHEASTERN POTTER...SOUTHWESTERN MONTOUR...
SOUTHWESTERN TIOGA...UNION AND WESTERN LYCOMING COUNTIES...
AN LARGE AREA OF SNOW SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED HEAVY SNOW SQUALLS
COVERED PORTIONS OF CENTRE...CLINTON...LYCOMING...MONTOUR...
NORTHUMBERLAND...POTTER...SNYDER...TIOGA AND UNION COUNTIES AT 433
PM EST. THE SNOW SHOWERS AND SQUALLS WERE GENERALLY MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SNOW SQUALLS. THE
FALLING...AND BLOWING SNOW WILL RAPIDLY DROP VISIBILITIES IN THESE
SNOW SQUALLS TO LESS THAN A QUARTER OF A MILE AND WILL QUICKLY ICE
UP ROADS AS TEMPERATURES FALL FROM THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S.
USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU PLAN TO TRAVEL LATE TODAY. ALLOW FOR
PLENTY OF BRAKING DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE VEHICLE
AHEAD...REDUCE YOUR SPEED GRADUALLY AND USE YOUR HAZARD LIGHTS IF
YOU ENCOUNTER A HEAVY SNOW SQUALL.
THE SQUALLS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
INTERSTATES...I-80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 170 AND 216...I-180 BETWEEN
MILE MARKERS 1 AND 29.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...STATE HIGHWAY
147...ROUTE 11...ROUTE 11/15...ROUTE 15...ROUTE 220...ROUTE 522...
STATE ROAD 45...STATE ROAD 61...STATE ROAD 120.
LAT...LON 4151 7732 4131 7700 4072 7655 4066 7675
4089 7713 4091 7739 4106 7768 4109 7763
4111 7771 4123 7779 4138 7794 4152 7800
4161 7757
FORECASTER: LAMBERT/GARTNERSpecial weather statement, Feb 11, 5:57 PM EST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2:42 PM EST | Wind Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Franklin, Fulton, Somerset | 22 hr |
| Feb 11, 4:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming, Northumberland, Union | 69 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.