Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 4:31 PM EDT for Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1994, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1994, 5:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tioga County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1207 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KIPT 132031 RRA SVRIPT PAC117-132130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 431 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...TIOGA COUNTY AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GAINES IN TIOGA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL REACH WELLSBORO BY 500 PM AND MANSFIELD BY 515 OR 530 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEMETH/GOUGH 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, Jun 13, 1:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>52-131835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 135 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT. IN NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BRADFORD...TIOGA...LYCOMING... SULLIVAN...TIOGA AND CLINTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. AT 130 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. HOWEVER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED ENTERING WESTERN PARTS OF POTTER COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE PRESENT MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM COULD BRING THEM INTO WESTERN TIOGA AND NORTHWESTERN CLINTON COUNTIES BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM EDT. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVERYONE IS URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOUGH
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>52-131835- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 135 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PARTS OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 8 PM EDT. IN NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BRADFORD...TIOGA...LYCOMING... SULLIVAN...TIOGA AND CLINTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. AT 130 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. HOWEVER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED ENTERING WESTERN PARTS OF POTTER COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE PRESENT MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM COULD BRING THEM INTO WESTERN TIOGA AND NORTHWESTERN CLINTON COUNTIES BETWEEN 230 AND 300 PM EDT. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVERYONE IS URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOUGH
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>52-131930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 220 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING TIOGA AND CLINTON COUNTIES... AT 220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO TIOGA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM AROUND WESTFIELD TO GALETON AND COUDERSPORT THEN TO NEAR BRADFORD AND ST. MARYS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH. THROUGH 300 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS TIOGA COUNTY AFFECTING ELKLAND...LITTLE MARSH...WELLSBORO AND MANSFIELD. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH RENOVO IN NRN CLINTON COUNTY AROUND 300 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR BRADFORD...TIOGA...LYCOMING...SULLIVAN AND CLINTON COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER...LARGE HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVERYONE IS URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOUGH/NEMETH
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>52-131930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 220 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING TIOGA AND CLINTON COUNTIES... AT 220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO TIOGA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM AROUND WESTFIELD TO GALETON AND COUDERSPORT THEN TO NEAR BRADFORD AND ST. MARYS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST 35 MPH. THROUGH 300 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS TIOGA COUNTY AFFECTING ELKLAND...LITTLE MARSH...WELLSBORO AND MANSFIELD. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH RENOVO IN NRN CLINTON COUNTY AROUND 300 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR BRADFORD...TIOGA...LYCOMING...SULLIVAN AND CLINTON COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER...LARGE HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVERYONE IS URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOUGH/NEMETH
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>52-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 330 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS TIOGA AND NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTIES... AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN TIOGA COUNTY AROUND LAWRENCEVILLE...MANSFIELD ...WELLSBORO AND THE PINE CREEK GORGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS THEN EXTENDED TO THE WEST AND SOUTH TO AROUND COUDERSPORT...GALETON AND RENOVO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF WELLSBORO AND NEAR RENOVO. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THROUGH 430 PM...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS BRADFORD AND NORTHERN LYCOMING COUNTIES AFFECTING SAYRE...CANTON...TROY...TOWANDA ...RALSTON...BUTTONWOOD...ENGLISH CENTER AND CAMMAL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR BRADFORD...TIOGA...LYCOMING...SULLIVAN AND CLINTON COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER...LARGE HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVERYONE IS URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOUGH/NEMETH
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour before
PAZ012-037-038-041-042-045-046-049>52-132030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 330 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS TIOGA AND NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTIES... AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN TIOGA COUNTY AROUND LAWRENCEVILLE...MANSFIELD ...WELLSBORO AND THE PINE CREEK GORGE. THE THUNDERSTORMS THEN EXTENDED TO THE WEST AND SOUTH TO AROUND COUDERSPORT...GALETON AND RENOVO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTHEAST OF WELLSBORO AND NEAR RENOVO. THE STORMS WERE ALL MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THROUGH 430 PM...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS ACROSS BRADFORD AND NORTHERN LYCOMING COUNTIES AFFECTING SAYRE...CANTON...TROY...TOWANDA ...RALSTON...BUTTONWOOD...ENGLISH CENTER AND CAMMAL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR BRADFORD...TIOGA...LYCOMING...SULLIVAN AND CLINTON COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER...LARGE HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVERYONE IS URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOUGH/NEMETH
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.