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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 2013, 6:29 AM EDT for 17 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 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
- Nov 1, 2013, 6:29 AM EDT (10:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2013, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adams County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Union County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 4:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 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 Nov 1, 5:43 AM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 5:43 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 1, 5:33 AM EDT, 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 533 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 PAZ004-005-010-017-024-033-020945- WARREN-MCKEAN-ELK-CLEARFIELD-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET- 533 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ011-020945- CAMERON- 533 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 558 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ006-012-018-037-041-042-020945- POTTER-NORTHERN CLINTON-NORTHERN CENTRE-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING- SULLIVAN- 533 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 558 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WIND ADVISORY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ019-025>028-034>036-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-020945- SOUTHERN CENTRE-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-BEDFORD-FULTON- FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 533 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 558 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 3:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
300 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013
PAZ004-010745-
WARREN PA-
300 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013
...SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT WARREN COUNTY...
AT 255 AM EDT...AN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN WARREN
COUNTY. STRONG WINDS...GUSTING TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH FROM THE
SOUTH...WILL OCCUR OVER THE COUNTY WITH THESE SHOWERS. STRONGEST
WINDS WILL BE ACROSS HIGHER ELEVATIONS.
THIS WILL AFFECT GRAND VALLEY...TIDIOUTE...GARLAND...YOUNGSVILLE AND
SUGAR GROVE.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6...ROUTE 62...
STATE ROAD 59.
LAT...LON 4200 7892 4184 7891 4183 7895 4180 7895
4162 7896 4165 7962 4179 7963 4200 7960
FORECASTER: JUNGLocal storm report, Nov 1, 6:01 AM EDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
601 AM EDT FRI NOV 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0505 AM TSTM WND DMG BEDFORD 40.01N 78.50W
11/01/2013 BEDFORD PA TRAINED SPOTTER
TREES AND WIRES DOWN. TWO BLOCKED ROADWAYS AND PINE
TREES BLOW INTO THE SIDE OF A HOUSE.
&&
EVENT NUMBER CTP1300485
COLBERTThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 9:48 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 16 hr |
| Nov 1, 3:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 4:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Somerset | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clinton, Elk, McKean, Potter | 53 min |
| Nov 1, 4:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 6 more | 61 min |
| Nov 1, 5:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga | 62 min |
| Nov 1, 5:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Centre, Clinton, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin and 11 more | 52 min |
| Nov 1, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Tioga | 45 min |
| Nov 1, 7:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.