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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2024, 7:39 PM EDT for Cambria County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 51 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, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2024, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Cambria County, PA, Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 1038 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 821 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
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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 6, 4:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 4:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 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 6, 12:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 45 min |
| 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 |
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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.