Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 4:34 PM EST for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2000, 4:34 PM EST (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2000, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lycoming County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:45 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Montgomery, PA | Dime size hail was reported iin Montgomery. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCTP 252134 SVRCTP PAC081-252215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 434 PM EST SAT MAR 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LYCOMING COUNTY. * UNTIL 515 PM EST. * AT 430 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF MONTOURSVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF MONTGOMERY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HUGHESVILLE AT 450 PM EST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/ ONDREJIK LAT...LON 4127 7704 4109 7701 4113 7644 4135 7648
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 51 min |
| Mar 25, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 27 min |
| Mar 25, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 4:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Snyder | 35 min |
| Mar 25, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 50 min |
| Mar 25, 5:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.