Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Heat Advisories in 2016
Heat Advisory 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this heat advisory at Jul 24, 2016, 2:26 PM EDT for 17 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jul 25, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2016, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 25, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2016, 6:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Adams County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Union County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 24, 11:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 11:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 2:26 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 226 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2016 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>026-033-034-037-041-042-045-251830- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-SOMERSET- BEDFORD-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON- 226 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY INTO EARLY MONDAY EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ035-251830- FULTON- 226 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM TO 8 PM EDT MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY INTO EARLY MONDAY EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ027-028-036-056>059-063>066-251830- MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-FRANKLIN-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 226 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM TO 8 PM EDT MONDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. IN ADDITION...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY INTO EARLY MONDAY EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ046-049>053-251830- SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA- 226 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY INTO EARLY MONDAY EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 24, 1:46 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
146 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0611 PM HAIL LOGANVILLE 39.86N 76.71W
07/23/2016 E1.00 INCH YORK PA PUBLIC
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EVENT NUMBER CTP1601718
EVANEGOThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 51 min |
| Jul 24, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 63 min |
| Jul 24, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 56 min |
| Jul 24, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 64 min |
| Jul 24, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin, Perry | 60 min |
Nearby
Heat Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2016Every heat advisory in 2016
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.