Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 7:38 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 6, 5:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
PAZ018-019-027-028-035-036-049>052-056-057-059-064>066-062200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 500 PM EDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH FRANKLIN COUNTY... AT 450 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HARRISBURG SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF CHAMBERSBURG. THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG WINDS...AND MAY CONTAIN SOME SMALL HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST. THE HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCED BY THIS STORM...AND ITS SLOW MOVEMENT MAY CAUSE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. NEVER TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER STANDING ON THE ROADWAYS...IT MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONED AREA...BE ALERT FOR RISING WATERS IF HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURS. COWDRIGHT
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean, Potter | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford, Tioga | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Union | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 68 min |
| Jul 6, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, York | 60 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.