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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

June 5, 2016Franklin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2016, 2:50 PM EDT for Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 25 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 5, 2016, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2016, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Franklin County, PA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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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 Jun 5, 2:17 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:17 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 12:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:35 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
235 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

PAZ049-050-052-051900-
UNION PA-SNYDER PA-NORTHUMBERLAND PA-
235 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF SNYDER...UNION...AND
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

AT 234 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM PENNS CREEK TO NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT MILLS.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 55 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  PORT TREVORTON...WINFIELD AND KRATZERVILLE AROUND 245 PM EDT.
  NORTHUMBERLAND...SUNBURY AND SHAMOKIN DAM AROUND 250 PM EDT.
  REBUCK AROUND 255 PM EDT.
  TREVORTON...RIVERSIDE AND STONINGTON AROUND 300 PM EDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE HERNDON...SEVEN
POINTS...FREEBURG...NEW BERLIN AND SNYDERTOWN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 4067 7668 4069 7712 4090 7710 4097 7666
      4096 7665
TIME...MOT...LOC 1834Z 263DEG 46KT 4087 7706 4071 7707

DANGELO

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:50 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
250 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

PAZ036-063-064-051915-
CUMBERLAND PA-ADAMS PA-FRANKLIN PA-
250 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF ADAMS...FRANKLIN...AND
CUMBERLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM EDT...

AT 249 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SHIPPENSBURG TO NEAR CLAYLICK. MOVEMENT WAS
EAST AT 40 MPH.

VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHAMBERSBURG...WAYNESBORO...SHIPPENSBURG...GREENCASTLE...
MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS...FAYETTEVILLE...WALNUT BOTTOM...WAYNE HEIGHTS...
BOILING SPRINGS...PINE GROVE FURNACE...ROUZERVILLE...GUILFORD...
CLAYLICK...MARION...SCOTLAND...MONT ALTO...CASHTOWN...IDAVILLE...
UPTON AND ARENDTSVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3972 7795 4006 7759 4022 7697 3972 7752
TIME...MOT...LOC 1849Z 255DEG 29KT 4003 7757 3973 7789

LA CORTE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Fulton	49 min
Jun 5, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Northumberland, Snyder	25 min
Jun 5, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Dauphin, Schuylkill	50 min
Jun 5, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Dauphin, Schuylkill	49 min
Jun 5, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams	26 min
Jun 5, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, York	68 min
Jun 5, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon	33 min
Jun 5, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	51 min
Jun 5, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	26 min
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	33 min
Jun 5, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	32 min
Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean, Potter, Warren	66 min
Jun 5, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Elk	45 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean, Potter	49 min
Jun 5, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Elk, McKean	30 min
Jun 5, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Elk	62 min
Jun 5, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	38 min
Jun 5, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clinton	21 min
Jun 5, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	17 min
Jun 5, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016 Every 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.