Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 3:19 PM EDT for Dauphin County, York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 86 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2000, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dauphin County, PA, York County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Spring Grove, PA | |
| May 10, 4:02 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | York, PA | Golf ball sized hail was reported in York, with hail the size of quarters in New Salem. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 11:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCTP 101922 SVRCTP PAC043-133-102045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 319 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... YORK COUNTY. DAUPHIN COUNTY. * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 315 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF LINGLESTOWN TO 2 MILES NORTH OF PROGRESS TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GETTYSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BRESSLER-ENHAUT-OBERLIN...EAST BERLIN AT 325 PM EDT. ABBOTTSTOWN...LEWISBERRY AT 330 PM. HANOVER...HIGHSPIRE AT 335 PM. DOVER...HUMMELSTOWN AT 340 PM. GOLDSBORO...MIDDLETOWN AT 345 PM. HERSHEY...SHILOH AT 350 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE STORMS ALONG THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE LINE HAVE PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN ADAMS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS YORK COUNTY. .END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 57 min |
| May 10, 5:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 36 min |
| May 10, 10:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 51 min |
| May 10, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 64 min |
| May 10, 10:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 53 min |
| May 10, 11:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 65 min |
| May 10, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 58 min |
| May 10, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 62 min |
| May 10, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk | 49 min |
| May 10, 11:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 33 min |
| May 10, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 57 min |
| May 10, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 55 min |
| May 10, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield | 46 min |
| May 10, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 56 min |
| May 10, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 62 min |
| May 10, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 58 min |
| May 10, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 65 min |
| May 10, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 71 min |
| May 10, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Perry | 62 min |
| May 10, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 70 min |
| May 10, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin | 66 min |
| May 10, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 57 min |
| May 10, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 65 min |
| May 10, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 45 min |
| May 10, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Northumberland | 62 min |
| May 10, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 63 min |
| May 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 58 min |
| May 10, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 60 min |
| May 10, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 39 min |
| May 10, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Northumberland | 68 min |
| May 10, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 64 min |
| May 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.