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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

September 8, 2021Columbia County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Sep 8, 2021, 6:36 PM EDT for Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 39 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 8, 2021, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 2021, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Columbia County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

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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 7, 7:54 PM EDT, 22 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 7:54 PM EDT, 22 hours 42 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 8, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	23 min
Sep 8, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Centre	33 min
Sep 8, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	33 min
Sep 8, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair	31 min
Sep 8, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Huntingdon	31 min
Sep 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Mifflin	46 min
Sep 8, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder	39 min
Sep 8, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Northumberland, Snyder	49 min
Sep 8, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill	37 min
Sep 8, 6:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CTP	Adams, Lancaster, York	7 hr
Sep 8, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Carbon	27 min
Sep 8, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	17 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.