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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

September 19, 2016Columbia County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Sep 19, 2016, 4:17 PM EDT for Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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: Sep 19, 2016, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Sep 19, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Columbia County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 18, 7:25 PM EDT, 20 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 7:25 PM EDT, 20 hours 52 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 18, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	61 min
Sep 18, 9:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan, Union	114 min
Sep 18, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	61 min
Sep 18, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia	53 min
Sep 19, 12:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	40 min
Sep 19, 12:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	65 min
Sep 19, 1:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Schuylkill	3 hr
Sep 19, 1:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon	28 min
Sep 19, 2:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	York	54 min
Sep 19, 3:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	81 min
Sep 19, 4:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Adams, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York	3 hr
Sep 19, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.