Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 12:40 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 12:40 PM EDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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, 7:43 PM EDT, 16 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 7:43 PM EDT, 16 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 58 min |
| Aug 5, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 58 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.