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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 6, 2024, 6:19 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 18 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
- Oct 6, 2024, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2024, 6:37 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Warren County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 32 min |
| Oct 6, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 32 min |
| Oct 6, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 51 min |
| Oct 6, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 34 min |
| Oct 6, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Elk | 33 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.