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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS State College, PA

May 7, 2010McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2010, 10:46 PM EDT for McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 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
May 7, 2010, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2010, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties McKean County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 7, 9:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2010-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2010-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 687 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
687 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 May 7, 8:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 8:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 7, 10:26 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 10:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPWarren49 min
May 7, 11:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCameron, Elk, McKean, Potter57 min
May 8, 12:43 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCameron, Potter, Tioga47 min
May 8, 1:35 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCameron, Elk40 min
May 8, 1:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPClearfield36 min
May 8, 1:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPClinton, Lycoming, Sullivan46 min
May 8, 2:10 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCentre35 min
May 8, 2:27 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPBlair, Cambria48 min
May 8, 2:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPBlair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon35 min
May 8, 3:06 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCambria9 min
May 8, 2:24 PM EDTFreeze WatchCTPBedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 17 more14 hr
May 8, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCentre, Clinton, Lycoming, Mifflin, Sullivan, Union27 min
May 8, 3:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCTPCameron25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.