Special Weather Statement
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A Strong Thunderstorm Will Impact Central Schuylkill... Northumberland...Northeastern Snyder...Southern Montour And Southern Columbia Counties Through 700 PM EDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 602 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Sunbury, moving southeast at 25 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Pottsville, Sunbury, Shamokin, Mount Carmel, Selinsgrove, Shenandoah, Danville, Minersville, Mahanoy City, Frackville, Northumberland, St. Clair, Kulpmont, Ashland, Elysburg, Fairview-Ferndale, Riverside, Port Carbon, Trevorton, and Tremont.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Very heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Snyder County, PA
- Montour County, PA
- Northumberland County, PA
- Columbia County, PA
- Schuylkill County, PA
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS State College PA
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~21s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2RPAJK4JJ57J2S4TKJNDDWX
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.b91a293e72110d9a66707b52c15d72caa77c1616.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS State College PA
- AWIPS ID
- CAPCTP
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.6507
- WMO heading
- XOUS51
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 51
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSCTP |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS81 KCTP 172203 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL SCHUYLKILL... NORTHUMBERLAND...NORTHEASTERN SNYDER...SOUTHERN MONTOUR AND SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM EDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-17T22:02:00-00:00...storm...291DEG...22KT...40.85,-76.78 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Snyder County, PA
- Montour County, PA
- Northumberland County, PA
- Columbia County, PA
- Schuylkill County, PA
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 042109 |
| SAME | 042093 |
| SAME | 042097 |
| SAME | 042037 |
| SAME | 042107 |
| UGC | PAZ050 |
| UGC | PAZ051 |
| UGC | PAZ052 |
| UGC | PAZ053 |
| UGC | PAZ058 |
- Polygons
- 40.56,-76.27 40.75,-77.08 40.88,-76.91 40.89,-76.82 40.92,-76.86 41.03,-76.72 40.86,-75.98 40.56,-76.27