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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2023, 3:26 PM EDT for Cambria County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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
- Apr 1, 2023, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2023, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Cambria County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 104 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -163 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 Apr 1, 3:16 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 3:16 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 236 PM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023 PAZ025>028-034>036-056-057-059-063>066-021845- Blair-Huntingdon-Mifflin-Juniata-Bedford-Fulton-Franklin-Perry- Dauphin-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 236 PM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT SUNDAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 107 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ012-018-019-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-058-021845- Northern Clinton-Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Tioga- Northern Lycoming-Sullivan-Southern Clinton-Southern Lycoming-Union- Snyder-Montour-Northumberland-Columbia-Schuylkill- 236 PM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT SUNDAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 107 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ024-033-021845- Cambria-Somerset- 236 PM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT SUNDAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 105 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. High Wind Warning. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ004>006-010-011-017-021845- Warren-McKean-Potter-Elk-Cameron-Clearfield- 236 PM EDT Sat Apr 1 2023 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT SUNDAY... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 105 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. Lambert
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 1, 2:52 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
252 PM EDT SAT APR 1 2023
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0251 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 W BLANDBURG 40.69N 78.50W
04/01/2023 CAMBRIA PA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN.
&&Local storm report, Apr 1, 2:58 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
258 PM EDT SAT APR 1 2023
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0250 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 WNW MARSHBURG 41.86N 78.80W
04/01/2023 MCKEAN PA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN ON ROUTE 59.
&&
STSpecial weather statement, Apr 1, 3:11 PM EDT, 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 72 min |
| Apr 1, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 53 min |
| Apr 1, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, McKean | 57 min |
| Apr 1, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 25 min |
| Apr 1, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Potter | 53 min |
| Apr 1, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Tioga | 59 min |
| Apr 1, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 16 min |
| Apr 1, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 50 min |
| Apr 1, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 40 min |
| Apr 1, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 74 min |
| Apr 1, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 43 min |
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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.