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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2008, 3:14 PM EDT for Potter County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 21, 2008, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Potter County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 21, 2:46 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:46 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 3:34 AM EDT, 11 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 334 AM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 PAZ004>006-010>012-017-018-024-033-220745- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- 334 AM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND SUNDAY. PAZ019-025>028-034>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066- 220745- SOUTHERN CENTRE-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-BEDFORD-FULTON- FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON- SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY- DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 334 AM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER ON SUNDAY...AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH FROM WEST TO EAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY TODAY...BUT THEY MAY BE NEEDED ON SUNDAY. DANGELO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 120 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 PAZ010-211745- ELK- 120 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL ELK COUNTY... AT 117 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER JOHNSONBURG IS MOVING EAST AT 21 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR ST. MARYS AROUND 130 PM AND EAST BRANCH DAM AROUND 135 PM. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...STATE ROAD 255. FORECASTER: BUDD
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 142 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 PAZ037-211815- TIOGA- 142 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL TIOGA COUNTY... AT 138 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF WELLSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 18 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR WELLSBORO AROUND 210 PM AND KEENEYVILLE AROUND 215 PM. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6. FORECASTER: BUDD
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 152 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 PAZ005-010-011-211815- CAMERON-ELK-MCKEAN- 152 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN ELK...NORTHWESTERN CAMERON AND SOUTH CENTRAL MCKEAN COUNTIES... AT 151 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF JOHNSONBURG...MOVING EAST AT 21 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR WILCOX AROUND 210 PM AND EAST BRANCH DAM AROUND 215 PM. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 219. FORECASTER: BUDD
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:49 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean, Warren | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.