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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS State College, PA

July 14, 2000Clearfield County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 2:11 PM EDT for Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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
Jul 14, 2000, 2:11 PM EDT (18:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2000, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Clearfield County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 102 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

175 
WUUS51 KCTP 141811
SVRCTP
PAC033-141915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
211 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLEARFIELD COUNTY.

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT.

* AT 206 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF GRAMPIAN...OR 9 MILES WEST OF
  CLEARFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LUMBER CITY AT 220 PM.
  CURWENSVILLE AT 225 PM.
  CLEARFIELD AND HYDE AT 230 PM.
  COALPORT AT 235 PM.
  GLEN HOPE AT 240 PM.
  RAMEY AT 250 PM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS 58 MPH OR STRONGER OR HAIL THREE
QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER.

$$

LAT...LON 4125 7864 4074 7879 4074 7840 4100 7813
          4119 7807

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPFranklin, Fulton56 min
Jul 14, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster56 min
Jul 14, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSnyder63 min
Jul 14, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLycoming55 min
Jul 14, 6:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster, York3 hr
Jul 14, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster, York50 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.