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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2022, 5:37 PM EDT for Bedford County, Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 1, 2022, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2022, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bedford County, PA, Fulton County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1260 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 5:01 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 1230 PM EDT Fri Jul 1 2022 PAZ004>006-010>012-017-018-024-033-037-041-021630- Warren-McKean-Potter-Elk-Cameron-Northern Clinton-Clearfield- Northern Centre-Cambria-Somerset-Tioga-Northern Lycoming- 1230 PM EDT Fri Jul 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. A few strong thunderstorms may produce isolated damaging wind gusts and possibly some hail this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ036-056>059-063>066-021630- Franklin-Perry-Dauphin-Schuylkill-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York- Lancaster- 1230 PM EDT Fri Jul 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. A few strong to marginally severe thunderstorms may produce isolated damaging wind gusts and possibly some hail this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, marginally severe hail, and heavy downpours are possible Saturday afternoon. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ019-025>028-034-035-042-045-046-049>053-021630- Southern Centre-Blair-Huntingdon-Mifflin-Juniata-Bedford-Fulton- Sullivan-Southern Clinton-Southern Lycoming-Union-Snyder-Montour- Northumberland-Columbia- 1230 PM EDT Fri Jul 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. A few strong to marginally severe thunderstorms may produce isolated damaging wind gusts and possibly some hail this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds and marginally severe hail are possible Saturday afternoon. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. MRS
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 11:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 22 min |
| Jul 1, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon | 42 min |
| Jul 1, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 24 min |
| Jul 1, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 52 min |
| Jul 1, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 23 min |
| Jul 1, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Union | 49 min |
| Jul 1, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 28 min |
| Jul 1, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 23 min |
| Jul 1, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 35 min |
| Jul 1, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 14 min |
| Jul 1, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 18 min |
| Jul 1, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 34 min |
| Jul 1, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 12 min |
| Jul 1, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Mifflin | 16 min |
| Jul 1, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 36 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.