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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT for Adams County, York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 24 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 19, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2012, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Adams County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
544 WWUS81 KCTP 191921 SPSCTP SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 321 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012 PAZ064-065-191945- ADAMS PA-YORK PA- 321 PM EDT THU JUL 19 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN ADAMS AND SOUTHWESTERN YORK COUNTIES... AT 314 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BIGLERVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT NEW OXFORD...HANOVER AND SPRING GROVE. THIS WILL IMPACT I-83 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 13 AND 14. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 15...ROUTE 30...STATE ROAD 94...STATE ROAD 97. LAT...LON 4001 7725 3994 7670 3972 7671 3972 7732 $$ FORECASTER: GARTNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 77 min |
| Jul 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 33 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.