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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2023, 1:01 PM EDT for Potter County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 44 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 4, 2023, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2023, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Potter County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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</html>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 Aug 4, 12:15 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 12:15 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 1213 PM EDT Fri Aug 4 2023 PAZ006-012-018-019-027-028-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>058- 051615- 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- 1213 PM EDT Fri Aug 4 2023 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 584 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds 60 mph or greater and large hail exceeding 1 inch in diameter are possible in a few spots Monday afternoon or early evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ011-051615- Cameron- 1213 PM EDT Fri Aug 4 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Strong thunderstorms with gusty winds and small hail are possible this afternoon or early evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds 60 mph or greater and large hail exceeding 1 inch in diameter are possible in a few spots Monday afternoon or early evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ004-005-010-017-024-033>036-063>066-051615- Warren-McKean-Elk-Clearfield-Cambria-Somerset-Bedford-Fulton- Franklin-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 1213 PM EDT Fri Aug 4 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Strong thunderstorms with gusty winds and small hail are possible this afternoon or early evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds 60 mph or greater and large hail exceeding 1 inch in diameter are possible in a few spots Monday afternoon or early evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ025-026-059-051615- Blair-Huntingdon-Lebanon- 1213 PM EDT Fri Aug 4 2023 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 584 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds 60 mph or greater and large hail exceeding 1 inch in diameter are possible in a few spots Monday afternoon or early evening. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:01 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 1:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Tioga | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 34 min |
| Aug 4, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Snyder | 51 min |
| Aug 4, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Union | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder, Union | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 17 min |
| Aug 4, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Perry | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Union | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, York | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Mifflin | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 33 min |
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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.