Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT for Adams County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1992, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHAR 090018 SVRHAR PAC001-090045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 815 PM EDT FRI MAY 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARRISBURG HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF GETTYSBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 8, 6:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
PAZ009-013-090100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 635 PM EDT FRI MAY 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE RUMBLING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 635 PM WEATHER RADAR IN HARRISBURG SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA AND THE EASTERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARTINSBURG WEST VIRGINIA SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE NATIONS CAPITOL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT MORE THAN 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AROUND 745 PM AND INTO ADAMS COUNTY AROUND 900 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND HAIL. BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KOWALZYK
Special weather statement, May 8, 7:51 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
PAZ009-013-090300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 750 PM EDT FRI MAY 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE RUMBLING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 745 PM WEATHER RADAR IN HARRISBURG SHOWED A FAST MOVING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN MARYLAND AND FRANKLIN COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR LATROBE SOUTHEAST ACROSS MERCERSBURG TO HAGERSTOWN AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS MARYLAND TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BALTIMORE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT MORE THAN 40 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY AND INTO ADAMS COUNTY BY AROUND 800 PM AND INTO YORK COUNTY AROUND 830 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTS TO 30 TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVED THROUGH SOME MARYLAND LOCATIONS. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KOWALZYK
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.