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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 2019, 7:06 PM EDT for Clinton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 13 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
- Oct 31, 2019, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2019, 7:19 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Clinton County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 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 Oct 31, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 hour before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 642 PM EDT Thu Oct 31 2019 PAZ004>006-010-011-037-012245- Warren-McKean-Potter-Elk-Cameron-Tioga- 642 PM EDT Thu Oct 31 2019 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT FRIDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...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...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. PAZ019-026>028-035-036-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066- 012245- Southern Centre-Huntingdon-Mifflin-Juniata-Fulton-Franklin- Northern Lycoming-Sullivan-Southern Clinton-Southern Lycoming-Union- Snyder-Montour-Northumberland-Columbia-Perry-Dauphin-Schuylkill- Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 642 PM EDT Thu Oct 31 2019 ...TORNADO WATCH 686 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. A blast of much colder air and strong southwest to west wind gusts up to 40 mph will occur tonight into early Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ012-018-025-034-012245- Northern Clinton-Northern Centre-Blair-Bedford- 642 PM EDT Thu Oct 31 2019 ...TORNADO WATCH 686 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT FRIDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ017-024-033-012245- Clearfield-Cambria-Somerset- 642 PM EDT Thu Oct 31 2019 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EDT FRIDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...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...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 31, 5:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 4:32 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 17 more | 29 hr |
| Oct 31, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Cambria, Clearfield, Somerset | 53 min |
| Oct 31, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield | 66 min |
| Oct 31, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 41 min |
| Oct 31, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 24 min |
| Oct 31, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 48 min |
| Oct 31, 5:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Cameron, Potter, Tioga | 3 hr |
| Oct 31, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon | 41 min |
| Oct 31, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 49 min |
| Oct 31, 6:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Oct 31, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry | 63 min |
| Oct 31, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata, Lycoming, Mifflin | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lebanon and 4 more | 67 min |
| Oct 31, 7:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Oct 31, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 62 min |
| Oct 31, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 40 min |
| Oct 31, 7:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry, York | 3 hr |
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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.