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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at May 16, 2012, 2:55 PM EDT for Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 16, 2012, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 May 16, 2:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 2:20 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 220 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 PAZ024-033-171830- CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- 220 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ012-017>019-025>028-034>036-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066- 171830- NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD-NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-BLAIR- HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN CLINTON- SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY- DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 220 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ004>006-010-011-037-171830- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-TIOGA- 220 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY... 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. FROST ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FROST ADVISORY. AREAS OF FROST ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ041-042-171830- NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN- 220 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. PATCHY FROST WILL OCCUR LATE TONIGHT...UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE THURSDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. AREAS OF FROST ARE POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LAMBERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
255 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012
PAZ010-011-017-162000-
CAMERON PA-CLEARFIELD PA-ELK PA-
255 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2012
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CLEARFIELD...SOUTH
CENTRAL CAMERON AND SOUTHEASTERN ELK COUNTIES THROUGH 4 PM EDT...
AT 251 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
BROCKWAY TO SYKESVILLE TO PUNXSUTAWNEY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT TROUTVILLE...ROCKTON...
FORCE...MEDIX RUN...WOODLAND AND WALLACETON.
THIS WILL IMPACT I-80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 97 AND 130.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 119...ROUTE
219...ROUTE 322...STATE ROAD 153...STATE ROAD 255.
LAT...LON 4113 7881 4120 7878 4121 7876 4120 7872
4122 7872 4123 7874 4127 7874 4132 7841
4132 7809 4104 7815 4087 7842 4085 7881
FORECASTER: LAMBERT/COLBERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 11:46 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 7 hr |
| May 16, 2:09 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | CTP | Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Warren | 18 hr |
| May 16, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clearfield, Clinton | 56 min |
| May 16, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Lycoming | 56 min |
| May 16, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton | 43 min |
| May 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 24 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.