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High Wind Watch 2, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this high wind watch at May 7, 2010, 3:59 AM EDT for 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 8, 2010, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2010, 3:59 AM EDT (07:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 8, 2010, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2010, 3:41 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Cameron County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1435 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at May 7, 2:34 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:34 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:41 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 31 hr |
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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.