Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2010, 1:04 PM EDT for Centre County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 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 28, 2010, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2010, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 May 28, 12:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1200 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 .SYNOPSIS... A BACK DOOR COLD FRONT OVER EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA WILL MOVE LITTLE THROUGH SATURDAY. THIS FRONT WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA ON SUNDAY...RESULTING IN A WESTERLY FLOW OF WARMER AIR. ANOTHER COLD FRONT FROM THE UPPER GREAT LAKES WILL MOVE ACROSS THE KEYSTONE STATE LATE MEMORIAL DAY...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO THE AREA. COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BY TUESDAY...AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS SOUTHEAST FROM THE CANADIAN PLAINS. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... STATIONARY FRONT AND PRONOUNCED INVERTED SFC TROF EXTEND NORTHWARD THROUGH PA INTO NY STATE. AREA OF LOW CLOUDS IS CREEPING NW FROM THE LOWER SUSQ VALLEY ON SE WINDS ALONG THE SFC TROF. INCREASING CLOUDS WILL KEEP TEMPS LOWER THAN PAST FEW DAYS BUT IT WILL STILL BE A WARM...HUMID AND SOMEWHAT HAZY LATE SPRING AFTERNOON. SFC CONVERGENCE ALONG THE BOUNDARY/SFC TROF WILL COMBINE WITH WEAK IMPULSES MOVING SOUTH FROM NY TO INITIATE SHOWERS AND TSTORMS THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL PA. LOWER TEMPS WILL KEEP INSTABILITY IN CHECK AND SHEAR IS UNIDIRECTIONAL AND WEAK...SO POTENTIAL FOR STRONG STORM IS LOW...BUT EXPECTED SLOW STORM MOVEMENT WITH POTENTIAL FOR REPEATING/TRAINING CELLS...0-6KM MEAN STORM MOTION IS 340 AT 8KTS...THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN IS STILL A CONCERN INTO THIS EVENING. WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY FLOOD WATCHES ATTM AS DEWPOINTS ARE NOT EXCEEDINGLY HIGH AND FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE MOST PLACES IS IN THE 2 TO 4 INCH RAIN OVER 3 HOURS. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT/... DID TAPER POPS OFF AFTER MIDNIGHT. MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS SHOULD DIE DOWN BY THEN. BEST CHC FOR ANYTHING ON SATURDAY WOULD BE DURING THE AFT... BUT NOT AS HIGH OF CHANCE AS TODAY. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... BY SUNDAY...H5 HEIGHTS WILL BE BUILDING AS UPPER FLOW TRANSITIONS TO MORE OF A NORTHWESTERLY DIRECTION. LOW LEVEL FLOW BECOMES SOUTHWESTERLY WHICH WILL CONTINUE THE WARMING TREND INTO MEMORIAL DAY AS MOST LOCATIONS GET INTO THE 80S SUN AND MON. A COLD FRONT IS PROGGED TO CROSS THE GREAT LAKES AND OHIO VALLEY EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH HPC PROGS SHOWING THE FRONT TRAVERSING THE AREA LATE MON NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...SUGGESTING AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN MOST AREAS FOR MEMORIAL DAY...WITH MOST LIKELY TIMING BEING LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING... THOUGH THIS TIMING COULD SLOW DOWN A BIT AND PUSH BEST CHANCES FOR SHOWERS INTO TUES. FOR NOW...DID SLOW TIMING DOWN SOME FOR MONDAY...DID CUT BACK ON POPS FOR MONDAY MORNING. THE ECMWF IS SLOWER WITH THE SYSTEM. && .AVIATION /16Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... LOW LVL MOISTURE IN THE FORM OF PATCHY MVFR CIGS/FOG WILL MIX OUT TO VFR EVERYWHERE BY LATE MORNING. A STALLED FRONT ALONG THE ALLEGHENY MTNS WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR A NEW ROUND OF TSRA DEVELOPING BY THIS AFTN. ANY TSRA COULD CREATE BRIEF VSBY/CIGS REDUCTIONS AND GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTN. HOWEVER...THE BULK OF THE DAY SHOULD BE VFR AND LGT WINDS. SCT TSRA SHOULD DISSIPATE WITH LOSS OF HEATING AFTER SUNSET. HOWEVER...RESIDUAL LOW LVL MOISTURE...PARTIAL CLEARING AND LGT WINDS COULD RESULT IN AREAS OF FOG LATE TONIGHT. OUTLOOK... SAT...AM IFR CIGS/VSBYS POSS. PM TSRA POSSIBLE. SUN...NO SIG WX EXPECTED. MON...PM TSRA POSSIBLE. TUE...TSRA POSSIBLE. && .CTP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SYNOPSIS...MARTIN NEAR TERM...GARTNER/MARTIN SHORT TERM...MARTIN LONG TERM...MARTIN AVIATION...FITZGERALD
Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 5:25 AM EDT, 7 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 525 AM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-290930- 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- 525 AM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT OVER EXTREME EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE NEARLY STATIONARY AND PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN ISOLATED SPOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. WHILE STORMS WILL BE MORE ISOLATED ON SATURDAY...THERE WILL STILL BE A CHANCE FOR A FEW STORMS TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE MARYLAND BORDER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS EXCEEDING ONE INCH. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 7:16 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 28, 12:23 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1223 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010
PAZ017-018-281700-
CLEARFIELD PA-NORTHERN CENTRE PA-
1223 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL CLEARFIELD AND
SOUTHWESTERN CENTRE COUNTIES...
AT 1219 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BRISBIN...MOVING
SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR RAMEY AROUND 1240 PM...GLEN HOPE AROUND 1250
PM AND COALPORT AROUND 100 PM.
LAT...LON 4095 7846 4089 7824 4074 7829 4073 7837
4072 7859 4073 7860
EXPERIMENTAL
FORECASTER: STEINBUGLSpecial weather statement, May 28, 12:44 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1244 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 PAZ010-011-281715- CAMERON PA-ELK PA- 1244 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL ELK AND WESTERN CAMERON COUNTIES... AT 1240 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR TRUMAN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR EMPORIUM AROUND 115 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...STATE ROAD 120...STATE ROAD 255. LAT...LON 4157 7821 4135 7822 4138 7858 4156 7857 EXPERIMENTAL FORECASTER: STEINBUGL
Special weather statement, May 28, 12:51 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1251 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 PAZ024-025-281715- BLAIR PA-CAMBRIA PA- 1251 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010 ...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN CAMBRIA AND WEST CENTRAL BLAIR COUNTIES... AT 1245 PM EDT...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEARLY STATIONARY ALONG THE CAMBRIA BLAIR COUNTY LINE...NORTHWEST OF ALTOONA NEAR BLANDBURG. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LAT...LON 4072 7839 4047 7842 4048 7859 4073 7859 EXPERIMENTAL FORECASTER: STEINBUGL
Special weather statement, May 28, 12:56 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1256 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010
PAZ017-018-281730-
CLEARFIELD PA-NORTHERN CENTRE PA-
1256 PM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL CLEARFIELD AND
SOUTHWESTERN CENTRE COUNTIES...
AT 1253 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR OSCEOLA MILLS...
MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR
SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN
A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS
STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR HOUTZDALE AROUND 100 PM.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 322...STATE ROAD
350.
LAT...LON 4081 7855 4098 7824 4084 7809 4074 7823
4074 7837 4073 7837 4072 7845
EXPERIMENTAL
FORECASTER: STEINBUGLThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 36 min |
| May 27, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 31 min |
| May 27, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 27 min |
| May 27, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 46 min |
| May 27, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 26 min |
| May 27, 11:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 63 min |
| May 27, 11:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 51 min |
| May 27, 11:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 66 min |
| May 28, 7:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 29 min |
| May 28, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 37 min |
| May 28, 12:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron | 31 min |
| May 28, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 24 min |
| May 28, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 34 min |
| May 28, 1:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 23 min |
| May 28, 1:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 26 min |
| May 28, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 37 min |
| May 28, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron | 33 min |
| May 28, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 50 min |
| May 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron | 47 min |
| May 28, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 43 min |
| May 28, 2:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 3 hr |
| May 28, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 39 min |
| May 28, 3:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 3 hr |
| May 28, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.