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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS State College, PA

May 24, 2000Centre County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 2:33 PM EDT for Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 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 24, 2000, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Centre County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 24, 2:50 PM EDTHail 1Howard, PA
May 24, 2:50 PM EDTHail 0.75Orviston, PA

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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 348 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 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

942 
WUUS51 KCTP 241834
SVRCTP
PAC027-241930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CENTRE COUNTY.

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT.

* AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLEFONTE...OR ABOUT 19
  MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWARD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HOWARD AT 300 PM EDT.
  MILLHEIM AT 320 PM EDT.

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

.END/ LAMBER/ LA CORTE

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, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCameron29 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, 2:48 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.