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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 8:36 PM EDT for McKean 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 15, 2012, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2012, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County McKean County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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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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 15, 8:06 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 8:06 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 446 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>035-037-041-042-045-046- 049>053-058-160900- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN- JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN- SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-SCHUYLKILL- 446 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ036-056-057-059-063>066-160900- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 446 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WIND GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL APPROACH 100 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON FROM MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 15, 6:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 836 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 PAZ005-006-160130- MCKEAN PA-POTTER PA- 836 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN MCKEAN AND NORTHWESTERN POTTER COUNTIES... AT 833 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES WEST OF BRADFORD... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT BRADFORD...REW...ELDRED AND SHINGLEHOUSE. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 219...STATE ROAD 46...STATE ROAD 446. LAT...LON 4179 7814 4190 7890 4200 7889 4201 7811 FORECASTER: MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 70 min |
| Jul 15, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 9:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lancaster, York | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 17 min |
| Jul 16, 2:14 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and 2 more | 63 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 4:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.