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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2008, 6:04 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2008, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2008, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 Aug 14, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 335 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 PAZ058-142030- SCHUYLKILL PA- 335 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SCHUYLKILL COUNTY... AT 329 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED OVER CENTRAL SCHUYLKILL COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. STORMS WILL BE NEAR GILBERTON AROUND 345 PM...SHENANDOAH AROUND 350 PM...POTTSVILLE...AND ST. CLAIR AROUND 355 PM...SCHUYLKILL HAVEN...AND PORT CARBON AROUND 405 PM...MAHANOY CITY AROUND 410 PM AND LOCUST LAKE STATE PARK AROUND 415 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES... I-81 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 100 AND 133...AS WELL AS THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 209...STATE ROAD 61. FORECASTER: DEVOIR
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 402 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 PAZ056-057-063-142100- CUMBERLAND PA-DAUPHIN PA-PERRY PA- 402 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PERRY...NORTHEASTERN CUMBERLAND AND WEST CENTRAL DAUPHIN COUNTIES... AT 359 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF CARLISLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR NEW BLOOMFIELD AROUND 420 PM...SHERMANSDALE AROUND 430 PM...CARLISLE SPRINGS AROUND 440 PM AND DUNCANNON AROUND 500 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES...THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 236 AND 237...I-70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 236 AND 237...I-81 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 52 AND 64. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 11...ROUTE 11/15...ROUTE 322/22. FORECASTER: MARTIN
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 434 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 PAZ066-142115- LANCASTER PA- 434 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL LANCASTER COUNTY... AT 432 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EAST PETERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 11 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR MANHEIM AROUND 440 PM...MILLERSVILLE AROUND 455 PM...LANCASTER AROUND 505 PM AND LEOLA AROUND 515 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES...THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 265 AND 284...I-70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 265 AND 284. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...STATE HIGHWAY 283...ROUTE 30...ROUTE 222...ROUTE 322...STATE ROAD 501. FORECASTER: MARTIN
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 53 min |
| Aug 13, 9:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lancaster | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 66 min |
| Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Perry, Snyder | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 55 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 53 min |
| Aug 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 93 min |
| Aug 14, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 5:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon | 3 hr |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.