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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Mar 19, 2022, 3:08 PM EDT for Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 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 19, 2022, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2022, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Mifflin County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Mar 19, 2:48 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 2:48 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 929 AM EDT Sat Mar 19 2022 PAZ004-005-010-011-017-024>026-033>036-201330- Warren-McKean-Elk-Cameron-Clearfield-Cambria-Blair-Huntingdon- Somerset-Bedford-Fulton-Franklin- 929 AM EDT Sat Mar 19 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Isolated strong to locally damaging winds and isolated hail are possible this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ006-012-018-019-027-028-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059- 063>066-201330- Potter-Northern Clinton-Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Mifflin- Juniata-Tioga-Northern Lycoming-Sullivan-Southern Clinton- Southern Lycoming-Union-Snyder-Montour-Northumberland-Columbia-Perry- Dauphin-Schuylkill-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 929 AM EDT Sat Mar 19 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered damaging winds 60 mph or greater, isolated severe hail up to an inch in diameter, and a brief tornado or two are the primary severe weather threats this afternoon into early evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. MRS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 1:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 19, 12:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 1:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 1:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Snyder | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour, Northumberland | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Dauphin, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.