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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1994, 4:43 PM EDT for Centre County, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 1994, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Centre County, PA, Clinton County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 454 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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, Aug 20, 1:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-045-046-049>053-201955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 1994 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER CLINTON COUNTY... AT 150 PM STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED TWO THUNDERSTORMS OVER CLINTON COUNTY. THE FIRST STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTH OF RENOVO AND THE SECOND STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RENOVO. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LA CORTE/NICOSIA
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 1:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-045-046-049>053-201955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 1994 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER CLINTON COUNTY... AT 150 PM STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED TWO THUNDERSTORMS OVER CLINTON COUNTY. THE FIRST STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTH OF RENOVO AND THE SECOND STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RENOVO. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LA CORTE/NICOSIA
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 4:00 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton | 2 hr |
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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.