Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2013, 4:06 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 69 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 10, 2013, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2013, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Warren County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 10, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 3:36 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 336 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 PAZ004>006-010>012-017-018-024-033-037-041-042-111945- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-SOMERSET-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN- 336 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PAZ019-025>028-034>036-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-111945- 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- 336 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:43 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 343 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 PAZ004-102045- WARREN PA- 343 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY BETWEEN 4 PM AND 445 PM.. AT 338 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES WEST OF HYDETOWN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT SPRING CREEK AROUND 415 PM...AND SUGAR GROVE AROUND 440 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT ROUTE 6. LAT...LON 4200 7912 4170 7962 4197 7962 4200 7959 FORECASTER: LAMBERT
Special weather statement, May 10, 3:49 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
349 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013
PAZ034-102015-
BEDFORD PA-
349 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN BEDFORD COUNTY...
AT 349 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR PLEASANT VALLEY...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT RAINSBURG.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 147
AND 148.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT ROUTE 220.
LAT...LON 4004 7852 3990 7827 3985 7829 3972 7852
3972 7873 3972 7874
FORECASTER: STEINBUGLThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 26 min |
| May 10, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 35 min |
| May 10, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 36 min |
| May 10, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 31 min |
| May 10, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk | 26 min |
| May 10, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 36 min |
| May 10, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 35 min |
| May 10, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean, Warren | 42 min |
| May 10, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin, Perry | 38 min |
| May 10, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield, Somerset | 37 min |
| May 10, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 64 min |
| May 10, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton | 39 min |
| May 10, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 62 min |
| May 10, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 27 min |
| May 10, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 54 min |
| May 10, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Northumberland, Schuylkill and 1 more | 40 min |
| May 10, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 53 min |
| May 10, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming | 64 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.