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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2012, 3:21 AM EDT for Sullivan 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
- Sep 7, 2012, 3:21 AM EDT (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2012, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Sullivan County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KCTP 070721
SPSCTP
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
321 AM EDT FRI SEP 7 2012
PAZ041-042-046-070815-
NORTHERN LYCOMING PA-SOUTHERN LYCOMING PA-SULLIVAN PA-
321 AM EDT FRI SEP 7 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL LYCOMING AND
SOUTHWESTERN SULLIVAN COUNTIES...
AT 318 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BARBOURS...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT PICTURE ROCKS...MUNCY VALLEY AND
BIGGERTOWN.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 220...STATE ROAD
118.
LAT...LON 4126 7646 4119 7656 4135 7690 4143 7684
4137 7641
$$
FORECASTER: DEVOIRThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 8:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Sullivan | 66 min |
| Sep 6, 10:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bradford | 26 min |
| Sep 6, 10:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 38 min |
| Sep 6, 10:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lycoming, Tioga | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 11:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 66 min |
| Sep 6, 11:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia | 93 min |
| Sep 6, 11:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Snyder | 36 min |
| Sep 7, 12:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 12:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder | 66 min |
| Sep 7, 12:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 25 min |
| Sep 7, 12:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 75 min |
| Sep 7, 1:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 52 min |
| Sep 7, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 57 min |
| Sep 7, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 37 min |
| Sep 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean, Warren | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean, Warren | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 42 min |
| Sep 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 63 min |
| Sep 7, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 58 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.