Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1995, 6:47 PM EDT for Juniata County, Mifflin County, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1995, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Juniata County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Snyder County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 042248 RRA SVRCTP PAC067-087-109-042345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 647 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...NORTHERN JUNIATA COUNTY...NORTHERN MIFFLIN COUNTY ...SNYDER COUNTY AT 650 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALFARATA IN NORTHERN MIFFLIN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL REACH MCCLURE IN SOUTHWEST SNYDER COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 7 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...L&ARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. NICOSIA/LA CORTE/MICHAUD
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, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:28 PM EDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 130 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 50 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.