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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2025, 5:05 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Lancaster County, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 40 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 15, 2025, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2025, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Dauphin County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 146 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 nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 15, 4:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 4:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 432 AM EDT Tue Apr 15 2025 PAZ006-010>012-037-041-042-160845- Potter-Elk-Cameron-Northern Clinton-Tioga-Northern Lycoming-Sullivan- 432 AM EDT Tue Apr 15 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Gusty westerly winds between 30 and 40 mph are likely this afternoon and tonight. Briefly higher gusts could accompany isolated thunderstorms late this morning through early this afternoon. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report measured wind gusts and any wind damage. PAZ017>019-024>028-033>036-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-160845- Clearfield-Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Cambria-Blair-Huntingdon- Mifflin-Juniata-Somerset-Bedford-Fulton-Franklin-Southern Clinton- Southern Lycoming-Union-Snyder-Montour-Northumberland-Columbia-Perry- Dauphin-Schuylkill-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 432 AM EDT Tue Apr 15 2025 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov/StateCollege on the internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Areas of frost Thursday morning and possibly even Friday morning could image sensitive vegetation where the growing season has started across the Lower Susquehanna Valley and adjacent portions of South Central Pennsylvania. Otherwise, the probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report measured wind gusts and any wind damage. PAZ004-005-160845- Warren-McKean- 432 AM EDT Tue Apr 15 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Lake enhanced snow showers will likely bring a coating to 2 inches of snow accumulation late today into Wednesday morning. Locally higher amounts of around 3 inches area possible in the snowbelt of Northwest Warren County. in addition, westerly wind gusts of 30 to 40 mph are likely from late this morning through tonight and into Wednesday. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report measured wind gusts and any wind damage. Also report any snow accumulation. Lambert
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 3:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 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 14, 10:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 11:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 11:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 11:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 55 min |
| Apr 15, 12:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 12:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 12:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 12:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clearfield | 41 min |
| Apr 15, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming | 63 min |
| Apr 15, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Mifflin | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder, Union | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour, Northumberland, Union | 37 min |
| Apr 15, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata, Northumberland, Snyder | 35 min |
| Apr 15, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre | 36 min |
| Apr 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 51 min |
| Apr 15, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 27 min |
| Apr 15, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 30 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.