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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2016, 12:21 PM EDT for Lebanon 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
- Aug 21, 2016, 12:21 PM EDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2016, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 143 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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 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
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
520 WWUS81 KCTP 211621 SPSCTP SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1221 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 2016 PAZ057-059-065-066-211715- DAUPHIN PA-LANCASTER PA-YORK PA-LEBANON PA- 1221 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PARTS OF LEBANON...YORK... DAUPHIN...AND LANCASTER COUNTIES UNTIL 115 PM EDT... AT 1219 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MANCHESTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A 15 TO 20 MINUTE PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...UP TO ONE INCH...IS EXPECTED. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HERSHEY...MANHEIM...ELIZABETHTOWN...PALMYRA...MIDDLETOWN... HUMMELSTOWN...MOUNT JOY...MAYTOWN...VALLEY GREEN... MOUNT GRETNA HEIGHTS...MOUNT WOLF...RHEEMS...CAMPBELLTOWN... QUENTIN...ROYALTON...BAINBRIDGE...LAWN...TIMBER HILLS... EMIGSVILLE AND MANCHESTER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... MINOR FLOODING MAY DEVELOP IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO WATER COVERING THE ROADWAY. THIS STORM CONTAINS WEAK ROTATION AND 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 3998 7680 4010 7689 4038 7660 4018 7627 TIME...MOT...LOC 1619Z 233DEG 18KT 4009 7676 $$ LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 11:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 63 min |
| Aug 21, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder, Union | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 1:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 40 min |
| Aug 21, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 42 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.