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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

July 3, 2012Cambria County, Centre County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2012, 10:36 PM EDT for Cambria County, Centre County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 54 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: Jul 3, 2012, 10:36 PM EDT (02:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2012, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties Cambria County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Jul 3, 10:23 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 10:23 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 10:14 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:22 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
522 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

PAZ034>036-032215-
BEDFORD PA-FRANKLIN PA-FULTON PA-
522 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT FULTON...NORTHERN
FRANKLIN AND SOUTHERN BEDFORD COUNTIES...

AT 518 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
WATERFALL TO RAINSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS
WILL AFFECT FORT LITTLETON...FANNETTSBURG...NEEDMORE AND UPPER
STRASBURG.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES...THE
PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 152 AND 184...I-70 BETWEEN
MILE MARKERS 147 AND 166...I-81 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 22 AND 23.

THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 11...ROUTE
30...ROUTE 220...ROUTE 522.

LAT...LON 3991 7870 4013 7805 4010 7792 4006 7786
      4009 7784 4000 7752 3977 7819

FORECASTER: DEVOIR

Local storm report, Jul 3, 7:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 8:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 9:50 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 10:36 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
Jul 3, 8:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	72 min
Jul 3, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	38 min
Jul 3, 9:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield, Elk	55 min
Jul 3, 11:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin	29 min
Jul 4, 12:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford, Franklin, Fulton, Somerset	53 min
Jul 4, 2:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Somerset	63 min
Jul 4, 11:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean, Warren	69 min
Jul 4, 11:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	48 min
Jul 4, 11:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	37 min
Jul 4, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Cambria, Somerset	41 min
Jul 4, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Somerset	54 min
Jul 4, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Centre	44 min
Jul 4, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Somerset	50 min
Jul 4, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Somerset	45 min
Jul 4, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Fulton, Somerset	42 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.