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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 2025, 7:50 PM EDT for 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 29, 2025, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2025, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Columbia County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Sullivan County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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 29, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 298 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
- 1790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 29, 7:27 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 7:27 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 330 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024-025-033-034-037-041-042-045-046- 301930- Warren-McKean-Potter-Elk-Cameron-Northern Clinton-Clearfield- Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Cambria-Blair-Somerset-Bedford-Tioga- Northern Lycoming-Sullivan-Southern Clinton-Southern Lycoming- 330 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 191 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ026>028-035-036-049>053-056-301930- Huntingdon-Mifflin-Juniata-Fulton-Franklin-Union-Snyder-Montour- Northumberland-Columbia-Perry- 330 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms with damaging winds 60 mph or greater and large hail exceeding 1 inch in diameter are possible this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather. PAZ057>059-063>066-301930- Dauphin-Schuylkill-Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 330 PM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms with gusty winds are possible this evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 29, 7:31 PM EDT, 19 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 |
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| Apr 29, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 91 min |
| Apr 29, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 68 min |
| Apr 29, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 18 min |
| Apr 29, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry and 2 more | 59 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.