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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

August 6, 2024Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2024, 12:30 AM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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 6, 2024, 12:30 AM EDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2024, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Lycoming County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 7.3

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The text

As transmitted.

503 
WWUS81 KCTP 060430
SPSCTP

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service State College PA
1230 AM EDT Tue Aug 6 2024
 
PAZ046-060515-
Southern Lycoming PA-
1230 AM EDT Tue Aug 6 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN LYCOMING COUNTY
THROUGH 115 AM EDT...

At 1229 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Jersey Shore, moving east northeast at 35 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around 
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Williamsport, Montoursville, Muncy, Hughesville, Montgomery,
Duboistown, Lairdsville, Collomsville, South Williamsport, Garden
View, Picture Rocks, Oval, Williamsport Airport, and Little League
World Series Complex.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. 

Persons in campgrounds should consider seeking sturdy shelter until
this storm passes.

&&

LAT...LON 4116 7659 4115 7668 4117 7673 4117 7680
      4116 7687 4114 7690 4115 7696 4114 7697
      4112 7722 4118 7725 4124 7724 4131 7661
      4130 7655 4119 7655
TIME...MOT...LOC 0429Z 263DEG 32KT 4118 7714 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

$$

Lambert

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	32 min
Aug 6, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	44 min
Aug 6, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	57 min
Aug 6, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	25 min
Aug 6, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	36 min
Aug 6, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clearfield	61 min
Aug 6, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	26 min
Aug 6, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Centre	37 min
Aug 6, 2:54 PM EDT	Flood Watch	CTP	Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York	13 hr
Aug 6, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Huntingdon	41 min
Aug 6, 3:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Adams, Lancaster, York	119 min
Aug 6, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria	24 min
Aug 6, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	66 min
Aug 6, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	32 min
Aug 6, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Montour	45 min
Aug 6, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster, York	38 min
Aug 6, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin	32 min
Aug 6, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Huntingdon	39 min
Aug 6, 4:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Lancaster	2 hr
Aug 6, 4:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin	74 min
Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia	20 min
Aug 6, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder	57 min
Aug 6, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin	48 min
Aug 6, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and 1 more	38 min
Aug 6, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon	32 min
Aug 6, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lebanon	25 min
Aug 6, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Fulton	12 min
Aug 6, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Juniata, Lebanon, Northumberland, Perry, Schuylkill and 1 more	37 min
Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	32 min
Aug 6, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata and 1 more	43 min
Aug 6, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon, Schuylkill	34 min
Aug 6, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton	33 min
Aug 6, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon	28 min
Aug 6, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, York	45 min
Aug 6, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Adams	31 min
Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Lancaster, Lebanon	118 min
Aug 6, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Cambria, Clearfield	51 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.