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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

July 27, 2017Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2017, 11:04 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 2017, 11:04 PM EDT (03:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2017, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

County Dauphin County, PA

The radar

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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 Jul 27, 10:50 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 10:50 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 2:09 PM EDT, 8 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 11:04 PM EDT, 0 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
Jul 28, 3:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Dauphin	3 hr
Jul 28, 12:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Adams, Franklin	3 hr
Jul 28, 2:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cambria	119 min
Jul 28, 3:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, York	3 hr
Jul 28, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	23 min
Jul 28, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	65 min
Jul 28, 4:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Huntingdon, Somerset	113 min
Jul 28, 4:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cambria, Clearfield	2 hr
Jul 28, 5:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union	57 min
Jul 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon	3 hr
Jul 28, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Somerset	60 min
Jul 28, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Huntingdon	119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.