Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 3:19 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1994, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1994, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lycoming County, PA, Tioga County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIPT 251919 RRA SVRIPT PAC081-117-252015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 319 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...NORTHERN LYCOMING COUNTY...SOUTHERN TIOGA COUNTY AT 315 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE PENNSYLVANIA GRAND CANYON IN TIOGA COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM EXTENDED INTO NORTHWEST LYCOMING COUNTY NEAR SLATE RUN. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST 25 MPH AND IT WILL PASS THROUGH BLACKWELL AND MORRIS BY 400 PM EDT. 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, Jul 25, 2:25 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>052-251930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 225 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER POTTER COUNTY BETWEEN GALETON AND CARTER CAMP. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF WESTFIELD IN TIOGA COUNTY AND NEAR STATE CAMP IN WESTERN CLINTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN TIOGA AND CLINTON COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS OR MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GINGRICH
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:28 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>052-251930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 225 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER POTTER COUNTY BETWEEN GALETON AND CARTER CAMP. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF WESTFIELD IN TIOGA COUNTY AND NEAR STATE CAMP IN WESTERN CLINTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WESTERN TIOGA AND CLINTON COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS OR MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GINGRICH
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:10 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>052-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 310 PM EDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR ALL OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INCLUDING THE WEST BRANCH AND MIDDLE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNTIL 9 PM EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES TIOGA...BRADFORD... CLINTON...LYCOMING AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES IN NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. AT 305 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PENNSDALE IN LYCOMING COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS DROPPED ONE QUARTER INCH HAIL AT THE WILLIAMSPORT-LYCOMING COUNTY AIRPORT AS THEY MOVED THROUGH AT 3 PM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN GALETON...STONYFORK AND CEDAR RUN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF RENOVO IN CLINTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH TIOGA...LYCOMING AND CLINTON COUNTY THROUGH 4 PM EDT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS OR MINOR FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. NEVER DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. GINGRICH/GOUGH
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.