Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1994, 3:03 PM EDT for Franklin County, Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 1994, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1994, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 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 131903 SVRHAR PAC055-057-132000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 303 PM EDT WED APR 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARRISBURG HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...FULTON COUNTY AT 3 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN FULTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY WITHIN 330 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONbG 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. GRC/DM NNNN
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, Apr 13, 2:10 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>052-132000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 210 PM EDT WED APR 131994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS APPROACHING NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 200 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SMETHPORT IN MCKEAN COUNTY SOUTH TO NEAR CLEARFIELD AND ALTOONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH BLAIR AND CLEARFIELD COUNTIES. HIGH WINDS...IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...WERE REPORTED WITH THOSE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVED THROUGH CAMBRIA AND WESTMORELAND COUNTIES EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE RAPID MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING THEM INTO CLINTON COUNTY BY 300 PM EDT AND THEN ACROSS TIOGA AND LYCOMING BETWEEN 300 AND 400 PM. STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES WHEN A THUNDERSTORM IS NEAR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE LATEST RADAR SUMMARIES AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING THUNDERSTORMS. NEMETH
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 56 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.