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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS State College, PA

May 16, 1988Fulton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1988, 2:28 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1988, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1988, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Fulton County, PA

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 16, 2:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Fulton, PA
May 16, 2:40 PM EDTHail 1Fulton, PA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 16, 1:34 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.