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Ice Storm Warning 3, NWS State College, PA

December 25, 20256 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this ice storm warning at Dec 25, 2025, 2:15 PM EST for 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 26, 2025, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr. 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 25, 2025, 2:15 PM EST (19:15 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 26, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 27, 2025, 3:43 AM EST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA

Counties Cambria County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-12-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-12-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this ice storm warning 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 ice storm warning went out at Dec 25, 1:37 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 1:37 PM EST, 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 25, 2:15 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryCTPAdams, Bedford, Blair, Cameron, Centre, Clinton and 21 more41 hr

Nearby

Ice Storm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2025Every ice storm warning in 2025

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.