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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

July 12, 2023Montour County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2023, 3:21 PM EDT for Montour County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 12, 2023, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2023, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

County Montour County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 261 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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
Jul 12, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clinton	33 min
Jul 12, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Tioga	24 min
Jul 12, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton, Lycoming, Potter	46 min
Jul 12, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	30 min
Jul 12, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Union	25 min
Jul 12, 6:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	McKean, Warren	2 hr
Jul 12, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Elk	24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2023 Every special weather statement in 2023

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.