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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2021, 4:49 PM EDT for Lycoming 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
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2021, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2021, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
County Lycoming County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
327 WWUS81 KCTP 202049 SPSCTP Special Weather Statement National Weather Service State College PA 449 PM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021 PAZ041-202115- Northern Lycoming PA- 449 PM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PARTS OF NORTHERN LYCOMING COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM EDT... At 449 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated a strong thunderstorm near Buttonwood, moving east at 15 mph. Small hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph are possible. Locations impacted include... Ralston and Buttonwood. LAT...LON 4147 7717 4154 7713 4153 7691 4140 7697 TIME...MOT...LOC 2049Z 280DEG 13KT 4150 7707 $$ KF
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 17 min |
| Jun 20, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 16 min |
| Jun 20, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata | 17 min |
| Jun 20, 7:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 27 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.