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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 3:46 PM EDT for Adams County, York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 44 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
- Aug 6, 2016, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Adams County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 6, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 158 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-071800- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN- JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING- SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 158 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 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...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 3:46 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
346 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
PAZ064-065-062030-
ADAMS PA-YORK PA-
346 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
...STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MOVING THROUGH YORK AND
EASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES...
AT 343 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM MANCHESTER TO LAKE MEADE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-SOUTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
THESE STORMS ARE MAKING BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH.
THE RAIN MAY ACCUMULATE UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF IN LESS THAN A HALF
AN HOUR.
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 3972 7714 3994 7726 4011 7691 4004 7657
4005 7654 4002 7653 3999 7650 3996 7648
3993 7645 3992 7640 3990 7638 3989 7638
3972 7681
TIME...MOT...LOC 1943Z 283DEG 30KT 4004 7671 3996 7705
DANGELOThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 23 min |
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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.