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Snow Squall Warning 45, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this snow squall warning at Dec 19, 2025, 5:07 PM EST for 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 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 19, 2025, 5:07 PM EST (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2025, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Blair County, PA, Centre County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 102 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Dec 18, 6:46 PM EST, 22 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 6:46 PM EST, 22 hours 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 4:19 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon | 41 min |
| Dec 19, 4:27 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Centre, Huntingdon | 48 min |
| Dec 19, 5:33 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 57 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.