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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS State College, PA

June 11, 1995Columbia County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT for Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1995-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1995-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 11, 9:48 AM EDT, 10 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:48 AM EDT, 10 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
945 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995

LATEST 88D LOOP FROM KCCX SHOWS A FEW PESKY SHOWERS OVER THE
SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...AND THAT'S ABOUT IT.  BEING COVERED IN
THE NOW'S.  ALL OTHER PCPN WILL HOLD OFF UNTIL AFTERNOON...WHICH
AGREES WITH CURRENT ZONES.

THINKING FROM PIT AND PHL SEEM PRETTY MUCH IN LINE.  WAVE FORMING
ON COLD FRONT WILL SLOW THE SYSTEM AS IS TRIES TO PUSH EAST.
LIKE THE IDEA OF WAITING ON THE ISSUANCES OF FLASH FLOOD WATCHES
(AL LA PIT) UNTIL A BETTER IDEA OF LOCATION...TIMING AND COVERAGE
OF PCPN.  AS PHL POINTS OUT IN PVS DISCUSSION...BEST CHANCE FOR
HEAVY PCPN (OTHER THAN ISOLATED WITH TSTMS) IS LATER TONIGHT
ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN PA.

LITTLE TO ADD TO CURRENT ZONES.

JUNG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPNorthumberland3 hr
Jun 11, 9:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPSchuylkill3 hr

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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.