Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 226, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 2001, 2:07 PM EDT for Centre County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 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
- Oct 16, 2001, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2001, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Woodland, PA | Trees were down in Woodland. Also, trees were reported down in Houtzdale at 13:25 EST. |
| Oct 16, 2:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Port Matilda, PA | Trees were down 3 miles west of Port Matilda. |
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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 16, 11:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 11:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Local storm report, Oct 16, 10:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE, PA
1010 AM EDT TUE OCT 16 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1147 AM 0.5 E HUGHESVILLE PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 LYCOMING LARGE TREE AND SOME CABLES
DOWN. TELEPHONE POLE
SNAPPED IN HALF
ALONG ROUTE 118.
215 PM WOODLAND PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 CLEARFIELD TREES AND TREE LIMBS DOWN ON
WIRES.
215 PM GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 BLAIR TREE DOWN IN BLUE KNOB
AREA.
225 PM HOUTZDALE PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 CLEARFIELD TREES & WIRES DOWN.
230 PM HOLIDAYSBURG PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 HUNTINGDON TREES DOWN EAST OF
TOWN. ROADS CLOSED.
240 PM PORT MATILDA PA TREE DOWN WEST OF PORT
10/16/01 CENTRE MATILDA ON ROUTE
322.
301 PM STATE COLLEGE PA 42 MPH WIND GUST
10/16/01 CENTRE WIND GUST AT NWS OFFICE IN
DOWNTOWN STATE COLLEGE.
330 PM WOODWARD PA A TREE DOWN IN WOODWARD
10/16/01 CENTRE ON ROUTE 45.
435 PM WILLIAMSPORT PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 LYCOMING TRAINED SPOTTER
REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN IN THE AREA.
437 PM UPPER FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 LYCOMING MANY TREES DOWN ON ROUTES
87 AND 973.
438 PM WHITE DEER GOLF COURSE PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 LYCOMING 60-70 MPH NON TSTM WIND
REPORTED BY A TRAINED
SPOTTER. LARGE TREE DOWN
2 FEET IN DIAMETER AND
35 FEET HIGH.
610 PM LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 CUMBERLAND TREES & WIRES DOWN
ALONG CREEK ROAD.
610 PM BERWICK PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 COLUMBIA TREES & WIRES DOWN.
615 PM NEWPORT PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 PERRY TREES DOWN ALONG ROUTE
849 AT NEWPORT AND
DUCANNON.
615 PM LIVERPOOL PA WIND DAMAGE
10/16/01 PERRY TREES DOWN.
MSESpecial weather statement, Oct 16, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
PAZ005-006-010>012-017>019-025>028-034>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 204 PM EDT TUE OCT 16 2001 ...STRONG WINDS GUSTS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON... A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING ALONG A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. EXPECT A SHORT PERIOD OF STRONG...AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS FROM THE WEST AT SPEEDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL REACH A LINE FROM ULYSSES...RENOVO...LEWISTOWN AND CHAMBERSBURG BETWEEN 315 PM AND 345 PM. EXPECT THE STRONG WIND GUSTS TO BEGIN IN PLACES SUCH AS MANSFIELD...WILLIAMSPORT...SUNBURY...HARRISBURG AND YORK BETWEEN 415 PM AND 5 PM. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS AS THE LINE OF GUSTY WINDS CROSSES YOUR AREA. SECURE ANY LOOSE OBJECTS THAT MAY BLOW AROUND OUTDOORS. TRAVEL IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AS THE COLD FRONT PASSES. AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO BLOW AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH. LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Oct 16, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Perry | 28 min |
| Oct 16, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 24 min |
| Oct 16, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Sullivan | 23 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.