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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2018, 5:13 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 17 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 7, 2018, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2018, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Fulton County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 29 min |
| Sep 7, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 30 min |
| Sep 7, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 27 min |
| Sep 7, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 31 min |
| Sep 7, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 42 min |
| Sep 7, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 38 min |
| Sep 7, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 39 min |
| Sep 7, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 47 min |
| Sep 7, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 49 min |
| Sep 7, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 13 min |
| Sep 7, 7:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Somerset | 4 hr |
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.