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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS State College, PA

May 24, 2000Cameron County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 1:46 PM EDT for Cameron County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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 24, 2000, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Cameron County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 2:00 PM EDTHail 0.88Sinnamahoning, PANickel sized hail.

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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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.

447 
WUUS51 KCTP 241747
SVRCTP
PAC023-241815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
146 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CAMERON COUNTY.

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT.

* AT 140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST. MARYS...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES WEST OF DRIFTWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DRIFTWOOD AND SINNEMAHONING AT 205 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

.END/ LA CORTE/LAMBERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 2:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPWarren47 min
May 24, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPElk30 min
May 24, 1:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPElk31 min
May 24, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork39 min
May 24, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams, Franklin38 min
May 24, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPColumbia33 min
May 24, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClinton59 min
May 24, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCentre57 min
May 24, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams57 min
May 24, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork67 min
May 24, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClinton20 min
May 24, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster59 min
May 24, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPUnion39 min
May 24, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClearfield45 min
May 24, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCentre, Clearfield50 min
May 24, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSchuylkill43 min
May 24, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCambria35 min
May 24, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCentre60 min
May 24, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMifflin53 min
May 24, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPJuniata, Snyder47 min
May 24, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPDauphin, Northumberland53 min
May 24, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLebanon, Schuylkill47 min
May 24, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLebanon15 min
May 24, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster46 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.