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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

May 26, 2012Centre County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2012, 1:41 PM EDT for Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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 26, 2012, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2012, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Centre County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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 26, 11:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 11:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 3:25 AM EDT, 10 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 1:16 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 1:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 1:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	29 min
May 26, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	29 min
May 26, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Northumberland, Snyder, Union	49 min
May 26, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	58 min
May 26, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	56 min
May 26, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	55 min
May 26, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Snyder, Union	55 min
May 26, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	62 min
May 26, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	52 min
May 26, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Juniata, Snyder, Union	3 hr
May 26, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Somerset	2 hr
May 26, 3:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Schuylkill	3 hr
May 26, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia	32 min
May 26, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	60 min
May 26, 3:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Huntingdon	119 min
May 26, 3:57 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	3 hr
May 26, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair	55 min
May 26, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	38 min
May 26, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Huntingdon	63 min
May 26, 4:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Juniata, Perry	3 hr
May 26, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	46 min
May 26, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Perry	60 min
May 26, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Schuylkill	74 min
May 26, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	47 min
May 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Columbia, Schuylkill	85 min
May 26, 5:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria	111 min
May 26, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	36 min
May 26, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	46 min
May 26, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	75 min
May 26, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Northumberland, Schuylkill	54 min
May 26, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Fulton	39 min
May 26, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	53 min
May 26, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.