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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS State College, PA

July 6, 1995Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 3:18 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Dauphin County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Dauphin, PA

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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.

NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 6, 10:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 10:27 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:49 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

PAZ004>006-010-011-017-024-025-033-034-062200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
249 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 729 HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
MCKEAN...POTTER...WARREN...ELK...CAMERON...CLEARFIELD...CAMBRIA...
BLAIR...SOMERSET AND BEDFORD...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAVE MOVED EASTWARD TO
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AFTER BRINGING HEAVY RAINS AND DAMAGING WINDS TO
MUCH OF THE AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR
THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

CHRISTOE

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:58 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

PAZ004>006-010-011-017-024-025-033-034-062200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
249 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 729 HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
MCKEAN...POTTER...WARREN...ELK...CAMERON...CLEARFIELD...CAMBRIA...
BLAIR...SOMERSET AND BEDFORD...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAVE MOVED EASTWARD TO
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AFTER BRINGING HEAVY RAINS AND DAMAGING WINDS TO
MUCH OF THE AREA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR
THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.

CHRISTOE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 11:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cambria	60 min
Jul 6, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	62 min
Jul 6, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cambria	52 min
Jul 6, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair	67 min
Jul 6, 1:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	59 min
Jul 6, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	68 min
Jul 6, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk	33 min
Jul 6, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, McKean	61 min
Jul 6, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Fulton, Huntingdon	57 min
Jul 6, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	75 min
Jul 6, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton, Potter	57 min
Jul 6, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin, Perry	78 min
Jul 6, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	52 min
Jul 6, 2:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Franklin	60 min
Jul 6, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Tioga	67 min
Jul 6, 2:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton	41 min
Jul 6, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder, Union	61 min
Jul 6, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland	61 min
Jul 6, 2:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Franklin	37 min
Jul 6, 2:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Cumberland	66 min
Jul 6, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin	63 min
Jul 6, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Perry	63 min
Jul 6, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland	62 min
Jul 6, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Sullivan	62 min
Jul 6, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder, Union	33 min
Jul 6, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	59 min
Jul 6, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	68 min
Jul 6, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan	61 min
Jul 6, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder, Union	61 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster, Lebanon	80 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	80 min
Jul 6, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin	46 min
Jul 6, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland	28 min
Jul 6, 4:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Dauphin	2 hr
Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	59 min
Jul 6, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia	33 min
Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster, York	76 min
Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lebanon, Schuylkill	76 min
Jul 6, 5:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Lebanon, Schuylkill	2 hr
Jul 6, 5:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	York	2 hr
Jul 6, 5:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	York	54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.