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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

June 3, 20125 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2012, 4:32 PM EDT for 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 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, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Snyder County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 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 Jun 3, 4:07 PM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:07 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 3:06 AM EDT, 13 hours 26 minutes before

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, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:48 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:26 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
426 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012

PAZ024>026-033-034-032115-
BEDFORD PA-BLAIR PA-CAMBRIA PA-HUNTINGDON PA-SOMERSET PA-
426 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN SOMERSET...NORTHERN
BEDFORD...SOUTHERN BLAIR...SOUTHERN CAMBRIA AND WEST CENTRAL
HUNTINGDON COUNTIES...

AT 425 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR WILMORE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT SKI GAP...CLAYSBURG...WOODBURY...SAXTON AND
BROAD TOP CITY.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES...THE
PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 156 AND 161...I-70 NEAR
MILE MARKER 147...I-99 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 2 AND 28.

THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 22...ROUTE
30...ROUTE 219...ROUTE 220...ROUTE 422.

LAT...LON 4027 7897 4051 7877 4036 7801 4012 7816
      4007 7821 4006 7820 3996 7826

FORECASTER: JUNG

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
432 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012

PAZ019-025>028-050-056-032115-
BLAIR PA-HUNTINGDON PA-JUNIATA PA-MIFFLIN PA-PERRY PA-SNYDER PA-
SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-
432 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...
MIFFLIN...PERRY...SOUTH CENTRAL BLAIR...SOUTH CENTRAL CENTRE AND
SOUTHERN SNYDER COUNTIES...

AT 429 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM POE
VALLEY STATE PARK TO ALLENSVILLE TO ROYER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT POE VALLEY STATE PARK...
SNYDER-MIDDLESWARTH STATE PARK...BEAVERTOWN...FREMONT AND NEW
BLOOMFIELD.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 11/15...ROUTE
22...ROUTE 22/522...ROUTE 322...ROUTE 322/22...ROUTE 522...STATE ROAD
45.

LAT...LON 4022 7765 4025 7764 4025 7767 4029 7767
      4024 7774 4035 7846 4049 7794 4091 7767
      4084 7736 4081 7735 4083 7728 4073 7686
      4057 7699 4049 7697 4035 7706 4026 7742
      4031 7737 4021 7758

FORECASTER: JUNG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	94 min
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, 4:33 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.