Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2005, 2:22 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2005, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2005, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lycoming County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCTP 301822 SVRCTP PAC081-301900- /O.NEW.KCTP.SV.W.0013.050530T1822Z-050530T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 222 PM EDT MON MAY 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LYCOMING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 211 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COGAN STATION...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF WILLIAMSPORT... AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOYALSOCKVILLE AROUND 230 PM EDT... MONTOURSVILLE AROUND 245 PM EDT... MUNCY AND HUGHESVILLE AROUND 300 PM EDT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS 58 MPH OR STRONGER...OR HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY LOCATION NOW. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2. LAT...LON 4146 7698 4133 7714 4113 7683 4118 7651 $$ DEVOIR/RXR
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KCTP 301841 SVSCTP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 239 PM EDT MON MAY 30 2005 PAC081-301900- /O.CON.KCTP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050530T1900Z/ LYCOMING- 239 PM EDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR LYCOMING COUNTY... AT 234 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND POSSIBLY A DAMAGING WIND GUST IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LOYALSOCKVILLE TO SALLADASBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IN ADDITION TO PENNY SIZED HAIL AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS... CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2. LAT...LON 4134 7687 4126 7730 4110 7713 4123 7653 $$ DEVOIR
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.