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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2012, 2:41 PM EDT for Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 94 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
- Jun 3, 2012, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1096 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 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 Jun 3, 9:48 AM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 9:48 AM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 306 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-040715- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN- JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING- SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 306 AM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY BUT IS POSSIBLE. DANGELO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:41 PM EDT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield | 72 min |
| Jun 3, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Union | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Union | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton and 5 more | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk, McKean | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster and 2 more | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and 3 more | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming and 3 more | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin, Lancaster, York | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton and 5 more | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 27 min |
| Jun 3, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder and 2 more | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Juniata and 9 more | 40 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.