Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 5:20 PM EDT for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Schuylkill County, PA
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 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 680 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358 WUUS51 KCTP 132121 SVRCTP PAC107-132215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 520 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 516 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF LEBANON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PINE GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PINE GROVE AT 525 PM EDT. CRESSONA...AND LAKE WYNONAH AT 540 PM EDT. LANDINGVILLE...AND MOUNT CARBON AT 545 PM EDT. DEER LAKE...AND MIDDLEPORT AT 550 PM EDT. NEW RINGGOLD...AND TUSCARORA AT 555 PM EDT. TAMAQUA AT 605 PM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/RXR/DUNHAM LAT...LON 4061 7665 4046 7642 4073 7579 4094 7620
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 65 min |
| May 13, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 43 min |
| May 13, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 67 min |
| May 13, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Snyder | 68 min |
| May 13, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 62 min |
| May 13, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Perry | 54 min |
| May 13, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 68 min |
| May 13, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 55 min |
| May 13, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 63 min |
| May 13, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 56 min |
| May 13, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | York | 32 min |
| May 13, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 35 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.