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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS State College, PA

August 4, 1995Warren County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1995, 4:25 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 4, 1995, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Warren County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 Aug 4, 1:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
130 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 11:08 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 11:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter, Tioga	64 min
Aug 4, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter, Tioga	52 min
Aug 4, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin, Snyder	58 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.