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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS State College, PA

August 19, 2009Columbia County, Lycoming County, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2009, 3:19 PM EDT for Columbia County, Lycoming County, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 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 19, 2009, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2009, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Columbia County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Sullivan County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 19, 2:20 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:20 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 5:44 AM EDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:52 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
252 PM EDT WED AUG 19 2009

PAZ041-042-191945-
NORTHERN LYCOMING PA-SULLIVAN PA-
252 PM EDT WED AUG 19 2009

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL LYCOMING AND
SULLIVAN COUNTIES...

AT 251 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR LINCOLN FALLS AROUND 300 PM...FORKSVILLE
AROUND 310 PM...EAGLES MERE AROUND 320 PM...LAPORTE AROUND 330 PM AND
RICKETTS GLEN STATE PARK AROUND 350 PM.

THIS WILL IMPACT ROUTE 220.

LAT...LON 4131 7631 4131 7641 4129 7643 4152 7694
      4160 7689 4160 7686 4158 7652 4149 7624

EXPERIMENTAL

FORECASTER: GRUMM

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	53 min
Aug 19, 3:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan, Union	3 hr
Aug 19, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Columbia, Montour	49 min
Aug 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill	56 min
Aug 19, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Perry	24 min
Aug 19, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Dauphin	37 min
Aug 19, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, York	57 min
Aug 19, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	33 min
Aug 19, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York	59 min
Aug 19, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, York	3 hr
Aug 19, 7:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Cumberland	3 hr
Aug 19, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.