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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

August 29, 2022McKean County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 29, 2022, 3:08 PM EDT for McKean County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 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: Aug 29, 2022, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County McKean County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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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
Aug 29, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	48 min
Aug 29, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	24 min
Aug 29, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cameron	44 min
Aug 29, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cameron	45 min
Aug 29, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	33 min
Aug 29, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	33 min
Aug 29, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Clinton	38 min
Aug 29, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Potter	37 min
Aug 29, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clinton, Tioga	31 min
Aug 29, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	35 min
Aug 29, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Centre	34 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.