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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS State College, PA

August 13, 1995Cambria County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT for Cambria County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Cambria County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1995-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2947 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1995-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

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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 13, 8:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 8:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 11:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSomerset59 min
Aug 14, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSullivan46 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.