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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS State College, PA

August 17, 1988Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1988, 12:09 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1988, 12:09 PM EDT (16:09 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1988, 12:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Bradford County, PA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 1988-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1988-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-241 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 11:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPTioga31 min
Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSullivan30 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.