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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS State College, PA

May 26, 2002Fulton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 7:20 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 26, 2002, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Fulton County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 7:25 PM EDT	Hail 1.5	Needmore, PA	Walnut sized hail was reported in Needmore.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 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.

000 
WUUS51 KCTP 262320
SVRCTP
PAC057-270015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
719 PM EDT SUN MAY 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FULTON COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT.

* AT 719 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COVE MILLS...OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF
  BREEZEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEEDMORE AT 730 PM.
  BIG COVE TANNERY AT 735 PM.
  HARRISSONVILLE AND SALUVIA AT 750 PM.
  MCCONNELLSBURG AT 755 PM.
  SIDELING HILL REST AREA AT 800 PM.
  FORT LITTLETON AT 815 PM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN BUCK 
VALLEY. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	40 min
May 26, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	49 min
May 26, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	75 min
May 26, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.