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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS State College, PA

June 10, 2009Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2009, 6:30 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 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 10, 2009, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2009, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Lancaster County, PA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2009-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2009-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 10, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
442 PM EDT WED JUN 10 2009

.SYNOPSIS...
A FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE REGION
PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR UNSETTLED WEATHER THROUGH THE END OF THE
WEEK. DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN FOR THE WEEKEND BEFORE HUMIDITY AND
MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURN FOR NEXT WEEK.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING/...
ISLD CONVECTION BREAKING OUT AGAIN ACROSS SRN COUNITES IN VERY WARM
AND MOIST AMS. WINDS/SHEAR REAMAINS ON THE WEAK SIDE WITH
MARINGALLY SEVERE PULSE STORM LASTING 20-30 MINS BEING THE PRIMARY MODE
THIS AFTN AND EARLY EVENING.

&&

.SHORT TERM /10 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH 6 AM THURSDAY/...
ANTICIPATE CONVECTION WILL BE ONGOING THRU THIS EVE...AS BNDRY IS
PROGGED TO BE OVERHEAD AND.A SHORTWAVE SLIDES EAST ALONG IT...THUS
HAVE MAINTAINED LIKELY POPS FOR OVERNIGHT. INSTABILITY REMAINS
THRU OVERNIGHT...850MB LLVL JET IS WEAK WHICH MAY AID IN HIGHER
QPF. PWAT ANOMS OF 2 TO 3 STD DEV ABV NORMAL 06-12Z...WHICH
TRANSLATES INTO 1.75-2.05 PWATS COULD RESULT IN SOME LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL...FOCUSED ACROSS SUSQ-VALLEY. TEMPS WILL NOT COOL
MUCH...THUS HAVE MAINTAINED MID/UPPER 60S ACROSS SE TO UPPER
50S/LOW 60S CENTRAL/NORTH.

&&

.LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
ANOTHER BUSY AFTERNOON ONGOING...BUT BASICALLY WILL CONTINUE
THINKING OF PREVIOUS FORECASTS.  WARM FRONT LIFTING ACROSS THE
AREA THU WILL KEEP THE UNSETTLED CONDITIONS GOING INTO AT LEAST
EARLY FRIDAY. OPERATIONAL MODELS AND ENSEMBLES AGREE IN KEEPING A
VERY HUMID AIRMASS IN PLACE WITH PWATS RUNNING BETWEEN ABOUT
1.25-1.75...OR ANYWHERE FROM 1-3 STD DEV ABOVE NORMAL. SHORT TERM
ATTENTION WILL NEED TO CENTER ON WHERE THE BOUNDARY SETS
UP...POSSIBLY PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.
GEFS SHOWS A PRETTY HIGH PROBABILITY OF AT LEAST AN INCH OF RAIN
THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY CENTERED OVER MUCH OF EASTERN PA WHILE THE NEW
SREF SHOWS A SMALLER PROBABILITY IN ABOUT THE SAME TIME FRAME
CENTERED OVER CENTRAL PA. WITH CONVECTION LIKELY DRIVING THE
CIRCUMSTANCES...ITS IMPOSSIBLE AT THIS RANGE TO ACCURATELY ZERO
IN ON WHERE THE BIGGEST THREAT WILL BE BUT WITH SUCH A SOUPY
AIRMASS UPSTREAM POISED TO SET UP SHOP OVER THE AREA...THE
POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING RAINS CANNOT BE DISCOUNTED.

SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR SAT AND SUN WITH DRIER AIR AND
TEMPS THAT SHOULD RUN VERY NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS. UPPER FLOW
BEGINS TO AMPLIFY AGAIN BY EARLY NEXT WEEK AS A TROF GETS
ESTABLISHED OVER THE NERN US. THIS WILL MAKE US VULNERABLE TO SOME
SHOWERS TO BEGIN THE NEW WEEK.

&&

.AVIATION /20Z WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/...
AREA OF CLOUDS AND SHOWERS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE AREA FROM OHIO IN
ASSOCIATION WITH A WAVE RIDING ALONG THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY.
CURRENT CONDITIONS ARE VFR AT ALL SITES WITH SOME HAZE.

AS THE WAVE MOVES ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT...RAIN AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST. EXPEC
CONDITIONS TO FALL TO MVFR THEN IFR AFTER 11/06Z. THIS WILL
CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD SO DID NOT
TRY TO GET TO CUTE TOWARD THE TAIL END OF THE FORECAST. MAINLY
MVFR CONDITIONS FOR THIS EVENT.

OUTLOOK...
THUR-FRI...MVFR OCNL IFR. PERIODS OF SHRA/TSRA.
SAT-SUN...VFR.

&&

.CTP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...LACORTE
NEAR TERM...GARTNER
SHORT TERM...GARTNER
LONG TERM...RXR
AVIATION...TYBURSKI
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 5:43 AM EDT, 12 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
543 AM EDT WED JUN 10 2009

PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-
056>059-063>066-110945-
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-
543 AM EDT WED JUN 10 2009

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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 9:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPColumbia32 min
Jun 9, 10:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPColumbia44 min
Jun 10, 10:32 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford28 min
Jun 10, 3:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPAdams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and 1 more59 min
Jun 10, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork52 min
Jun 10, 3:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCTPLancaster, York3 hr
Jun 10, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPDauphin31 min
Jun 10, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPYork37 min
Jun 10, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPJuniata30 min
Jun 10, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork57 min
Jun 10, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPDauphin, Lebanon25 min
Jun 10, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCambria31 min
Jun 10, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPHuntingdon, Mifflin30 min
Jun 10, 4:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPYork8 hr
Jun 10, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBedford31 min
Jun 10, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair29 min
Jun 10, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPDauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill56 min
Jun 10, 4:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCTPHuntingdon3 hr
Jun 10, 4:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCTPSchuylkill3 hr
Jun 10, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin60 min
Jun 10, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork46 min
Jun 10, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair26 min
Jun 10, 5:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPHuntingdon, Mifflin30 min
Jun 10, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster, Lebanon34 min
Jun 10, 6:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPHuntingdon24 min
Jun 10, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPColumbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill36 min
Jun 10, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCentre25 min
Jun 10, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLebanon12 min
Jun 10, 6:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCTPColumbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill117 min
Jun 10, 7:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPLancaster35 min
Jun 10, 7:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPAdams63 min
Jun 10, 7:47 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCTPAdams118 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.