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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

January 25, 20144 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jan 25, 2014, 10:40 PM EST for 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 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: Jan 25, 2014, 10:40 PM EST (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2014, 11:30 PM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties Adams County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, York County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Jan 25, 7:52 PM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 7:52 PM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 25, 8:15 PM EST, 2 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
815 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

PAZ004>006-010>012-017-018-024-033-037-041-042-270115-
WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD-
NORTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-
815 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 10 AM EST SUNDAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO
WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   WIND CHILL ADVISORY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO
WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   WIND CHILL ADVISORY.

DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA FOR THE
MORNING HOURS OF TUESDAY...WEDNESDAY AND POSSIBLY THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

PAZ019-025>028-034>036-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-270115-
SOUTHERN CENTRE-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-BEDFORD-FULTON-
FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-
NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-
ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER-
815 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE MORNING HOURS
OF TUESDAY...WEDNESDAY AND POSSIBLY THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 25, 6:42 PM EST, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 7:37 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 8:35 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 8:40 PM EST, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 9:46 PM EST, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 10:40 PM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1040 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

PAZ036-057>059-063>066-260430-
ADAMS PA-CUMBERLAND PA-DAUPHIN PA-FRANKLIN PA-LANCASTER PA-LEBANON
PA-SCHUYLKILL PA-YORK PA-
1040 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

...A DANGEROUS BAND OF SNOW SQUALLS WILL AFFECT ADAMS...EASTERN
CUMBERLAND...LANCASTER...LEBANON...SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN...
SOUTHEASTERN SCHUYLKILL...SOUTHERN DAUPHIN AND YORK COUNTIES...

AT 1030 PM EST...A BAND OF SNOW SQUALLS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR
TAMAQUA...SOUTHWARD ACROSS HARRISBURG...TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF
CHAMBERSBURG. THE LINE OF SQUALLS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SNOW SQUALLS.
VISIBILITIES WILL BE NEAR ZERO AT TIMES.

THE SNOW SQUALLS WILL AFFECT LEBANON...PORT CLINTON...NEW
OXFORD...SNYDERS...ROTHSVILLE...YORK...LANCASTER...AND GLEN ROCK.

THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES...THE
PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 231 AND 295...I-78 BETWEEN
MILE MARKERS 0 AND 8...I-81 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 99...I-83
BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 50...I-283.

USE EXTRA CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THESE SNOW
SQUALLS. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE SQUALLS MOVE EAST OF
THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY AFTER MIDNIGHT.

LAT...LON 4019 7713 4081 7587 4074 7576 4064 7598
      4057 7601 4049 7643 4014 7587 4011 7593
      3987 7598 3972 7610 3972 7788

FORECASTER: MARTIN

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 25, 7:37 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 12 more	53 min
Jan 25, 8:35 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clinton, Columbia and 13 more	55 min
Jan 25, 8:40 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, York	80 min
Jan 25, 9:46 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Juniata and 7 more	59 min
Jan 25, 10:42 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams, Lancaster, Lebanon, York	48 min
Jan 26, 3:57 AM EST	Wind Chill Watch	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 11 more	23 hr
Jan 26, 2:08 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria, Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, McKean, Somerset and 1 more	52 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.