Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1988, 12:30 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 17, 1988, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1988, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sullivan 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Sullivan, PA | |
| Aug 17, 12:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Sullivan, 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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 36 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.