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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2012, 4:03 AM EDT for Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 27 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 16, 2012, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2012, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Jul 16, 2:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1152 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>035-037-041-042-045-046- 049>053-058-161030- 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- 1152 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ036-056-057-059-063>066-161030- FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 1152 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL APPROACH 100 DEGREES DURING THE AFTERNOON FROM MONDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
213 AM EDT MON JUL 16 2012
PAZ004-160630-
WARREN PA-
213 AM EDT MON JUL 16 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY...
AT 210 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR PLEASANTVILLE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT INTENSE
LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER
UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 4174 7960 4162 7942 4162 7947 4162 7961
4163 7962 4170 7962
FORECASTER: LAMBERTSpecial weather statement, Jul 16, 4:03 AM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 54 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, 4:22 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.