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Snow Squall Warning 33, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this snow squall warning at Dec 5, 2024, 1:52 AM EST for Blair County, Centre County, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 5, 2024, 1:52 AM EST (06:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2024, 2:15 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blair County, PA, Centre County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 538 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 12:22 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 53 min |
| Dec 5, 12:58 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 62 min |
| Dec 5, 1:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 32 min |
| Dec 5, 1:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 49 min |
| Dec 5, 2:09 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 21 min |
| Dec 5, 2:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry and 1 more | 40 min |
| Dec 5, 3:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland | 50 min |
| Dec 5, 3:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Perry, Snyder | 48 min |
| Dec 5, 3:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 65 min |
| Dec 5, 3:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 64 min |
| Dec 5, 4:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga | 67 min |
| Dec 5, 4:49 AM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Northumberland, Union | 56 min |
| Dec 5, 5:07 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 53 min |
| Dec 5, 5:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Sullivan and 1 more | 72 min |
| Dec 5, 6:23 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Union | 52 min |
| Dec 5, 7:21 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 54 min |
| Dec 5, 7:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 54 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.