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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

March 10, 2017Adams County, Franklin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Mar 10, 2017, 3:02 PM EST for Adams County, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 28 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
Mar 10, 2017, 3:02 PM EST (20:02 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 2017, 3:30 PM EST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Adams County, PA, Franklin County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2017-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2017-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
704 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 7:23 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford, Columbia, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and 7 more52 min
Mar 10, 8:20 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford, Columbia, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and 7 more55 min
Mar 10, 10:01 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPLancaster, York59 min
Mar 10, 10:58 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPClearfield, Clinton, Lycoming32 min
Mar 10, 12:24 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPMontour, Union36 min
Mar 10, 12:27 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair, Huntingdon, Mifflin33 min
Mar 10, 1:11 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPNorthumberland34 min
Mar 10, 1:14 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair31 min
Mar 10, 1:20 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford, Cumberland, Fulton, Perry25 min
Mar 10, 1:22 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPMontour53 min
Mar 10, 1:38 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPAdams, Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Perry and 1 more52 min
Mar 10, 1:51 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPUnion24 min
Mar 10, 2:46 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPMontour44 min
Mar 10, 2:54 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPSchuylkill36 min
Mar 10, 2:57 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPLebanon33 min
Mar 10, 3:04 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPYork41 min
Mar 10, 3:14 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset61 min
Mar 10, 5:42 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCentre, Huntingdon, Mifflin33 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.