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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

July 13, 2014Warren County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2014, 2:15 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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 13, 2014, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2014, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Warren County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 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 Jul 13, 12:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 12:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 2:46 AM EDT, 11 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:17 AM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:57 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:09 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:15 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
215 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014

PAZ004-131900-
WARREN PA-
215 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE AFFECTING THE AREA...

AT 214 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR I-86 EXIT 9 TO NEAR GUYS MILLS TO NEAR
GREENVILLE EAST...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GRAND VALLEY AROUND 240 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE TIDIOUTE...SUGAR
GROVE...CLARENDON...BEAR LAKE AND STARBRICK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4200 7892 4191 7892 4163 7918 4163 7961
      4198 7961 4200 7959
TIME...MOT...LOC 1814Z 275DEG 30KT 4213 7939 4162 7984 4141 8025

LA CORTE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 7:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	22 min
Jul 13, 8:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	28 min
Jul 13, 8:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean, Warren	63 min
Jul 13, 10:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	66 min
Jul 13, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Clearfield, Elk	56 min
Jul 13, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	33 min
Jul 13, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cameron, Potter, Tioga	60 min
Jul 13, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset	59 min
Jul 13, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk	56 min
Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Potter, Tioga	44 min
Jul 13, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Cambria, Somerset	42 min
Jul 13, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin	44 min
Jul 13, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Huntingdon	63 min
Jul 13, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	27 min
Jul 13, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, Mifflin and 1 more	60 min
Jul 13, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland and 2 more	63 min
Jul 13, 7:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Huntingdon and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 13, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Juniata, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill and 3 more	71 min
Jul 13, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Dauphin, Perry	32 min
Jul 13, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Franklin	53 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.