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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2022, 7:55 PM EDT for York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 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 5, 2022, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2022, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 29 min |
| Aug 5, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 2:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Warren | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 23 min |
| Aug 5, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Schuylkill | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 6:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Somerset | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lycoming | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 7:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | York | 2 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.