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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS State College, PA

May 30, 2005Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

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

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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2005-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
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

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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.