Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2016, 12:21 PM EDT for Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 54 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 21, 2016, 12:21 PM EDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2016, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Somerset County, PA
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted.
126
WWUS81 KCTP 211621
SPSCTP
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1221 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016
PAZ033-211715-
SOMERSET PA-
1221 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2016
...HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY...
AT 1220 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN
IS EXPECTED OVER LOCATIONS LIKE MEYERSDALE...MOUNT DAVIS...URSINA...
ADDISON...SALISBURY...WELLERSBURG...CALLIMONT...AND CONFLUENCE.
UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BY 1 PM EDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MINOR FLOODING MAY DEVELOP. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER COVERING THE
ROADWAY.
&&
LAT...LON 3972 7938 3973 7939 3974 7941 3974 7940
3976 7940 3977 7938 3978 7940 3979 7935
3980 7937 3983 7937 3989 7927 3980 7877
3972 7881
TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 294DEG 40KT 3977 7919
$$
DANGELOThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 12:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 1:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 2:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 3:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 4:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 22 min |
| Jun 21, 6:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 7:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 7:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, York | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 8:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 11:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Franklin, Fulton | 20 min |
| Jun 21, 12:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.