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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2023, 5:04 PM EDT for 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 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 14, 2023, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2023, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Lycoming County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Union County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 14, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 1139 AM EDT Fri Jul 14 2023 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>027-033>035-045-151545- Warren-McKean-Potter-Elk-Cameron-Northern Clinton-Clearfield- Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Cambria-Blair-Huntingdon-Mifflin- Somerset-Bedford-Fulton-Southern Clinton- 1139 AM EDT Fri Jul 14 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. A wave of low pressure at the surface and aloft will bring a likelihood of thunderstorms Saturday night into Sunday morning. Frequent dangerous cloud to ground lightning, localized gusty winds and heavy rainfall are all possible with the round of mainly nocturnal thunderstorms. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ028-036-037-041-042-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-151545- Juniata-Franklin-Tioga-Northern Lycoming-Sullivan-Southern Lycoming- Union-Snyder-Montour-Northumberland-Columbia-Perry-Dauphin- Schuylkill-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 1139 AM EDT Fri Jul 14 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. An upper level disturbance approaching from the Middle Ohio River Valley will combine with the humidity and warmth to spark scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms this afternoon across primarily eastern half of the state. Some of the storms could produce localized strong wind gusts, heavy rainfall and up to penny sized hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. A wave of low pressure at the surface and aloft will bring a likelihood of thunderstorms Saturday night into Sunday morning. Frequent dangerous cloud to ground lightning, localized gusty winds and heavy rainfall are all possible with the round of mainly nocturnal thunderstorms. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:28 PM EDT, 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 9:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Clearfield | 56 min |
| Jul 13, 10:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 11:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Union | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 12:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 1:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 12:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 12:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 56 min |
| Jul 14, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Union | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Union | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 44 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.