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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS State College, PA

June 6, 1994Centre County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 1:34 PM EDT for Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1994, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Centre County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1994-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1994-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 237 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 12:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClinton36 min
Jun 6, 1:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPUnion53 min
Jun 6, 1:24 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPUnion51 min
Jun 6, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSnyder, Union57 min
Jun 6, 2:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon62 min
Jun 6, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPNorthumberland68 min
Jun 6, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSchuylkill61 min
Jun 6, 3:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPJuniata58 min
Jun 6, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCumberland67 min
Jun 6, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPerry60 min
Jun 6, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLebanon42 min
Jun 6, 3:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLebanon31 min
Jun 6, 4:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBerks38 min
Jun 6, 4:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBerks43 min
Jun 6, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster55 min

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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.