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Freeze Warning 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this freeze warning at May 17, 2009, 3:20 AM EDT for 13 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 18, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
- May 17, 2009, 3:20 AM EDT (07:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2009, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2009, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 16, 7:54 PM EDT, 7 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 7:54 PM EDT, 7 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 1:29 PM EDT, 13 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 129 PM EDT SAT MAY 16 2009 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-171730- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN- JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING- SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 129 PM EDT SAT MAY 16 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 311 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 65 min |
| May 16, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 47 min |
| May 16, 8:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 2 hr |
| May 16, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 71 min |
| May 16, 9:50 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | CTP | Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 10:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, York | 2 hr |
| May 17, 3:20 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland and 14 more | 30 hr |
Nearby
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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.