Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1995, 10:27 PM EDT for Centre County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1995, 10:27 PM EDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1761 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1217 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 KCTP 030231 RRA SVRCTP PAC027-033-030330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1027 PM EDT WED AUG 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...WESTERN CENTRE COUNTY...EASTERN CLEARFIELD COUNTY AT 1025 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN CLEARFIELD COUNTY NEAR IRVONA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST AND REACH THE TOWN OF PHILIPSBURG IN CENTRE COUNTY AROUND 1045 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 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. WINTHER
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 Aug 2, 8:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 8:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 845 PM EDT WED AUG 2 1995 TRW SLOWLY FADING...EXPECT ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE TO DECREASE. ADAP CHARTS SHOW FRONTAL BNDRY NICELY WITH BEST SFC MOISTURE CONV ACROSS NE PA ATTM. THINK FLOOD WATCH FOR SOMERSET AND CAMBRIA COUNTIES CAN BE DROPED NXT PACKAGE. BEST MOIST CONV LIFTS N INTO NEW YORK OVERNIGHT LEAVING CENTRAL PA WITH THE THREE H'S FOR THU. KEEPING BUSY SO THATS ALL FOR NOW... WINTHER/LOMBARDY
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.