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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2012, 7:06 PM EDT for 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 26, 2012, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 2136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 26, 3:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
706 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012
PAZ017>019-024>026-270000-
BLAIR PA-CAMBRIA PA-CLEARFIELD PA-HUNTINGDON PA-NORTHERN CENTRE PA-
SOUTHERN CENTRE PA-
706 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN BLAIR...
NORTHERN CAMBRIA...NORTHWESTERN HUNTINGDON...SOUTHERN CLEARFIELD AND
WESTERN CENTRE COUNTIES...
AT 702 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
SMICKSBURG TO MARION CENTER TO JACKSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS
WILL AFFECT BELSANO...LUMBER CITY...CURWENSVILLE AND OSCEOLA MILLS.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES...
I-80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 121 AND 147...I-99 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 38
AND 72.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 22...ROUTE
219...ROUTE 220...ALTERNATE ROUTE 220...ROUTE 322...ROUTE 422...STATE
ROAD 350...STATE ROAD 453.
LAT...LON 4072 7881 4095 7881 4099 7880 4107 7794
4083 7787 4057 7813 4050 7891 4052 7891
FORECASTER: JC/RHGThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 4:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 26 min |
| Jul 26, 4:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean, Warren | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 5:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 72 min |
| Jul 26, 5:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 5:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean, Potter, Warren | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 5:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 32 min |
| Jul 26, 5:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Elk, Potter, Tioga | 29 min |
| Jul 26, 6:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming, Montour, Union | 46 min |
| Jul 26, 6:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 7:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Union | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 7:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Juniata, Perry | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 8:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, McKean, Potter, Warren | 72 min |
| Jul 26, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean and 3 more | 69 min |
| Jul 26, 2:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | McKean, Potter | 39 min |
| Jul 26, 3:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Tioga | 91 min |
| Jul 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming and 6 more | 74 min |
| Jul 26, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 66 min |
| Jul 26, 4:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland | 34 min |
| Jul 26, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Fulton and 5 more | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Northumberland, Snyder and 1 more | 67 min |
| Jul 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 32 min |
| Jul 26, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan | 84 min |
| Jul 26, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster and 8 more | 81 min |
| Jul 26, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 74 min |
| Jul 26, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, York | 56 min |
| Jul 26, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton and 5 more | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill and 1 more | 57 min |
| Jul 26, 6:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, York | 49 min |
| Jul 26, 6:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Somerset | 70 min |
| Jul 26, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, York | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 59 min |
| Jul 26, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata and 3 more | 53 min |
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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.