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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service State College PA
732 AM EDT Mon Apr 13 2020

PAZ057-059-063>066-131215-
York PA-Lancaster PA-Adams PA-Cumberland PA-Lebanon PA-Dauphin PA-
732 AM EDT Mon Apr 13 2020

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR PARTS OF LANCASTER...ADAMS...YORK...
DAUPHIN...CUMBERLAND...AND LEBANON COUNTIES UNTIL 815 AM EDT...

At 731 AM EDT, Doppler radar indicated a shower over Hanover, moving
northeast at 50 mph.

Wind gusts 40 to 50 mph are possible.

Locations impacted include...
Lancaster, York, Hanover, Ephrata, Weigelstown, Elizabethtown,
Columbia, Lititz, Middletown, Millersville, Willow Street, Mount Joy,
Parkville, Red Lion, Steelton, New Holland, Spry, Manheim, East
Petersburg and Cornwall.
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2 minutes ago, tombo82685 said:

Said this earlier but be careful of posting wind maps off models they always verify to high. For instance hrrr had 50+ mph wind gusts already. Philly hasn't even got past 40 yet. 

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Yeah the soundings are not adiabatic.  On the other hand we already lost power.

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5 minutes ago, tombo82685 said:

Said this earlier but be careful of posting wind maps off models they always verify to high. For instance hrrr had 50+ mph wind gusts already. Philly hasn't even got past 40 yet.

Thank goodness with all this rain. Looks like highest low-level winds are overhead now with 60-70 knots of 0-3km shear.

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1 minute ago, Chubbs said:

Thank goodness with all this rain. Looks like highest low-level winds are overhead now with 60-70 knots of 0-3km shear.

 

Been saying it for a couple days, saving grace is lack of dry air a loft. Sounding is to wet to adequately transport it down. If we get some sun and dry out later, then chances of bigger wind increase or any svr storm. 

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Just now, tombo82685 said:

Been saying it for a couple days, saving grace is lack of dry air a loft. Sounding is to wet to adequately transport it down. If we get some sun and dry out later, then chances of bigger wind increase or any svr storm. 

We also don't have any instability yet. Per SPC wind damage starts south of DC

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4 minutes ago, tombo82685 said:

Per nws, should start seeing 50 mph gusts by 10am

Per HREF peak instability here is 2-5 PM, 5PM below. Isopleths are bulk shear surface to 500mb. Shear is weakening as instability increases, good thing they were not aligned.

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Northern VA to PA area late morning into early afternoon...
   There will be a window of opportunity for surface-based storm
   development later this morning through early afternoon from VA into
   MD/DE/NJ and PA with the synoptic cold front.  Boundary-layer
   dewpoints in the upper 50s to lower 60s north of the pre-frontal
   squall line farther south, and some cloud breaks later this morning,
   should allow at least weak surface-based buoyancy to develop. 
   Vertical shear will be strong and a broken band of storms, capable
   of producing damaging winds and a couple of tornadoes, is expected
   to form and persist from roughly 16-21z (the precursor of which is
   the convection now near the OH/WV/KY border).

   ..Thompson/Kerr.. 04/13/2020

 

Latest from the spc 

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15 minutes ago, irishbri74 said:

Northern VA to PA area late morning into early afternoon...
   There will be a window of opportunity for surface-based storm
   development later this morning through early afternoon from VA into
   MD/DE/NJ and PA with the synoptic cold front.  Boundary-layer
   dewpoints in the upper 50s to lower 60s north of the pre-frontal
   squall line farther south, and some cloud breaks later this morning,
   should allow at least weak surface-based buoyancy to develop. 
   Vertical shear will be strong and a broken band of storms, capable
   of producing damaging winds and a couple of tornadoes, is expected
   to form and persist from roughly 16-21z (the precursor of which is
   the convection now near the OH/WV/KY border).

   ..Thompson/Kerr.. 04/13/2020

 

Latest from the spc 

IMO, comes down to if we can get some sunny breaks. If that happens, could be trouble for better chances of mixing down and weakening inversion

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