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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2016, 3:32 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 4, 2016, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Bedford County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jun 4, 3:15 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 3:15 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 2:34 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 PAZ004>006-010-011-017-051845- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-CLEARFIELD- 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ISOLATED STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE 40 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH. THE RISK FOR TORNADOES IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ024-033-051845- CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND MAY CAUSE RUNOFF ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ISOLATED STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE 40 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH. THE RISK FOR TORNADOES IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ025>027-034-035-051845- BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-BEDFORD-FULTON- 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND MAY CAUSE RUNOFF ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH. ONE OR TWO WEAK...SHORT-LIVED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ012-018-019-037-041-042-045-046-051845- NORTHERN CLINTON-NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-TIOGA- NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING- 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE 40 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND MAY CAUSE RUNOFF ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH. ONE OR TWO WEAK...SHORT-LIVED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ028-036-056-063-064-051845- JUNIATA-FRANKLIN-PERRY-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS- 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 1 INCH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND MAY CAUSE RUNOFF ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER. A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ049>053-057>059-065-066-051845- UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL- LEBANON-YORK-LANCASTER- 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE 40 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE AND MAY CAUSE RUNOFF ISSUES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS 60 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL UP TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER. A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 332 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 PAZ034-042000- BEDFORD PA- 332 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR PARTS OF BEDFORD COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM EDT... AT 330 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SHOWER NEAR CLEARVILLE AND EVERETT...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR FROM THIS SHOWER. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BREEZEWOOD...EVERETT AND CLEARVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 3994 7843 4003 7841 4002 7821 3986 7829 TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 275DEG 11KT 3997 7837 DANGELO
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 6:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Fulton, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 3 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016Every special weather statement 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.