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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2024, 5:05 PM EDT for Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 25 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 6, 2024, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2024, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 11:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Aug 6, 4:22 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 4:22 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 6, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service State College PA
359 PM EDT Tue Aug 6 2024
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0345 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg 2 SW Unionville 40.88N 77.91W
08/06/2024 Centre PA Public
Trees down and on wires blocking old Rt 220.
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GADLocal storm report, Aug 6, 4:06 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service State College PA
406 PM EDT Tue Aug 6 2024
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0354 PM Tstm Wnd Dmg 3 NE Boalsburg 40.81N 77.75W
08/06/2024 Centre PA Amateur Radio
Trees down.
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GADSpecial weather statement, Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 12:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 2:54 PM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 13 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, York | 119 min |
| Aug 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 4:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 74 min |
| Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 20 min |
| Aug 6, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and 1 more | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 12 min |
| Aug 6, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Juniata, Lebanon, Northumberland, Perry, Schuylkill and 1 more | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata and 1 more | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, York | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 118 min |
| Aug 6, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 51 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.