Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Ice Storm Warnings in 2007
Ice Storm Warning 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this ice storm warning at Dec 2, 2007, 9:15 PM EST for 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 2, 2007, 9:15 PM EST (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 3, 2007, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Clinton County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this ice storm 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 ice storm warning went out at Dec 2, 7:40 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 7:40 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 2:10 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | CTP | McKean, Warren | 45 hr |
| Dec 3, 2:26 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | CTP | Elk, Potter | 33 hr |
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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.