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Special Weather Statement, NWS State College, PA

December 5, 2024Centre County, Clinton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this special weather statement at Dec 5, 2024, 7:21 AM EST for Centre County, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 54 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: Dec 5, 2024, 7:21 AM EST (12:21 UTC)
Expired: Dec 5, 2024, 8:15 AM EST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA

Counties Centre County, PA, Clinton County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:23 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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
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, 1:52 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	CTP	Blair, Centre, Huntingdon	23 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, 7:36 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.