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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

June 12, 2012Cameron County, Elk County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2012, 4:32 PM EDT for Cameron County, Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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 12, 2012, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties Cameron County, PA, Elk County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 78 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	61 min
Jun 12, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	37 min
Jun 12, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	59 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton	63 min
Jun 12, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Huntingdon and 3 more	71 min
Jun 12, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry	62 min
Jun 12, 7:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset	119 min
Jun 12, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Juniata and 1 more	80 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.