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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

May 3, 2012Elk County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2012, 3:55 PM EDT for Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 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: May 3, 2012, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Elk County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 May 3, 3:09 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 3:09 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 2:15 AM EDT, 13 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
215 AM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

PAZ006-012-018-019-026>028-035>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059-
063>066-040615-
POTTER-NORTHERN CLINTON-NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-HUNTINGDON-
MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-
SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-
NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-
ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER-
215 AM EDT THU MAY 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...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL PRODUCE LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS THE AREA ON FRIDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SOME OF
THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR LARGE HAIL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

PAZ004-005-010-011-017-024-025-033-034-040615-
WARREN-MCKEAN-ELK-CAMERON-CLEARFIELD-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-
215 AM EDT THU MAY 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...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

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, May 3, 1:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
143 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

PAZ004-031830-
WARREN PA-
143 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY...

AT 136 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 12 MILES WEST OF ELGIN...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT COLUMBUS.

THIS WILL IMPACT ROUTE 6.

LAT...LON 4178 7948 4181 7962 4197 7962 4200 7961
      4200 7943

FORECASTER: DEVOIR

Special weather statement, May 3, 3:20 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
320 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

PAZ010-011-031945-
CAMERON PA-ELK PA-
320 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN CAMERON AND
SOUTHEASTERN ELK COUNTIES...

AT 317 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BENEZETTE...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT HICKS RUN AND DRIFTWOOD.

THIS WILL IMPACT STATE ROAD 120.

LAT...LON 4145 7799 4138 7798 4122 7809 4125 7840
      4132 7842 4147 7800

FORECASTER: DANGELO

Special weather statement, May 3, 3:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
355 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

PAZ010-011-017-032045-
CAMERON PA-CLEARFIELD PA-ELK PA-
355 PM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ELK...NORTHERN CLEARFIELD AND
SOUTHEASTERN CAMERON COUNTIES...

AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED PORTIONS OF CAMERON...
CLEARFIELD AND ELK COUNTIES AT 351 PM EDT. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
WERE GENERALLY MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH...BUT SOME WERE NEARLY
STATIONARY.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND
CREEKS. THERE IS A MINOR FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF ELK
COUNTY AS WELL.

LAT...LON 4131 7812 4113 7807 4107 7839 4118 7879
      4121 7876 4120 7872 4122 7872 4123 7874
      4127 7876 4133 7889 4159 7893

FORECASTER: DANGELO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean	29 min
May 2, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Warren	52 min
May 2, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, Potter and 1 more	62 min
May 2, 9:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Warren	3 hr
May 2, 9:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga	34 min
May 2, 10:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming, Union	33 min
May 2, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union	31 min
May 3, 12:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair	25 min
May 3, 1:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cumberland, Lancaster, York	71 min
May 3, 5:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford, Fulton	44 min
May 3, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	47 min
May 3, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk, McKean	39 min
May 3, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cameron	25 min
May 3, 3:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Elk	2 hr
May 3, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clearfield	45 min
May 3, 4:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Centre, Clearfield, Clinton	3 hr
May 3, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	31 min
May 3, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Centre	41 min
May 3, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton	42 min
May 3, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cumberland	57 min
May 3, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	24 min
May 3, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder, Union	46 min
May 3, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	56 min
May 3, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Juniata, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder	47 min
May 3, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	57 min
May 3, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Juniata, Perry	60 min
May 3, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Dauphin, Northumberland	64 min
May 3, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Fulton	25 min
May 3, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Fulton	45 min
May 3, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Dauphin, Lebanon	58 min

Nearby

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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.