Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS State College, PA
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 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 10:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 28 min |
| Jun 10, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and 1 more | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lancaster, York | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 25 min |
| Jun 10, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 4:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 8 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 26 min |
| Jun 10, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 25 min |
| Jun 10, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 12 min |
| Jun 10, 6:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 117 min |
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 7:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams | 118 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.