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Lake Effect Snow Watch 2, NWS State College, PA

January 16, 2016McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this lake effect snow watch at Jan 16, 2016, 3:34 AM EST for McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 17, 2016, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 16, 2016, 3:34 AM EST (08:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 17, 2016, 2:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 17, 2016, 1:59 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties McKean County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow watch 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 lake effect snow watch went out at Jan 16, 2:42 AM EST, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 2:42 AM EST, 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 15, 10:14 PM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	CTP	Cameron, Centre, Clinton, McKean, Potter, Warren	5 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Watches in Pennsylvania, 2016 Every lake effect snow watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.