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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS State College, PA

August 27, 1994Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1994, 5:03 PM EDT for Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 27, 1994, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 27, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Northampton County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 27, 1:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

PAZ004>006-037-041-042-271820-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
117 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE COUDERSPORT AREA...

AT 115 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR FROM STATE COLLEGE SHOWED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF COUDERSPORT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE
EAST ALONG RTE 6 AND CROSS THE COUDERSPORT AREA AROUND 130 PM. THIS
STORM WILL REACH NEAR GALETON BY 215 PM.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED ALONG THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES FROM TIOGA COUNTY WEST TO
WARREN COUNTY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN NORTH CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH 3 PM.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

NICOSIA

Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

PAZ004>006-037-041-042-271820-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
117 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE COUDERSPORT AREA...

AT 115 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR FROM STATE COLLEGE SHOWED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF COUDERSPORT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE
EAST ALONG RTE 6 AND CROSS THE COUDERSPORT AREA AROUND 130 PM. THIS
STORM WILL REACH NEAR GALETON BY 215 PM.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT
EXTENDED ALONG THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES FROM TIOGA COUNTY WEST TO
WARREN COUNTY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN NORTH CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH 3 PM.

AT SIGNS OFR AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.

NICOSIA

Special weather statement, Aug 27, 4:33 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter	43 min
Aug 27, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, McKean	60 min
Aug 27, 2:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	McKean	3 hr
Aug 27, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Tioga	36 min
Aug 27, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Sullivan	38 min
Aug 27, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Elk	60 min
Aug 27, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming	49 min
Aug 27, 4:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Elk, Warren	4 hr
Aug 27, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Monroe, Northampton	44 min
Aug 27, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	64 min
Aug 27, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Northumberland, Union	68 min
Aug 27, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia	58 min
Aug 27, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	55 min
Aug 27, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin	68 min
Aug 27, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Berks	65 min
Aug 27, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin	44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.