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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS State College, PA

July 15, 1992Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1992, 5:59 PM EDT for Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 15, 1992, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 15, 6:10 PM EDTTornado F0Northampton, PA
Jul 15, 6:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Monroe, 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

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1992-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1693 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Atlantic City In, NJ at 12:00Z on 1992-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
0.7

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCarbon38 min
Jul 15, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCarbon38 min
Jul 15, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCarbon, Monroe26 min
Jul 15, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMonroe28 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMonroe39 min
Jul 15, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPDauphin61 min
Jul 15, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLebanon67 min
Jul 15, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPBerks26 min
Jul 15, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.