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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2019, 9:37 AM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 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 23, 2019, 9:37 AM EDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2019, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Warren County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 23, 8:06 AM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 8:06 AM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 23, 3:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Mifflin, Snyder | 46 min |
| May 23, 10:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 56 min |
| May 23, 10:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk | 21 min |
| May 23, 11:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 28 min |
| May 23, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 29 min |
| May 23, 11:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 33 min |
| May 23, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 26 min |
| May 23, 1:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour, Union | 26 min |
| May 23, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 32 min |
| May 23, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 23 min |
| May 23, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 23 min |
| May 23, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 55 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.