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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2019, 11:17 AM EDT for Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 2, 2019, 11:17 AM EDT (15:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2019, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 Aug 2, 10:44 AM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 10:44 AM EDT, 33 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 430 AM EDT Fri Aug 2 2019 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-030830- 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- 430 AM EDT Fri Aug 2 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 11:00 AM EDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 11:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 12:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Clearfield | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Union | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 1:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 2:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 3:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Centre, Mifflin, Snyder, Union | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 6:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 34 min |
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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.