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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2026, 6:39 PM EDT for Elk County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 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 21, 2026, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2026, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Elk County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 1:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour | 44 min |
| Jul 21, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Sullivan | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Schuylkill | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 19 min |
| Jul 21, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Elk | 37 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.