Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 4:43 PM EDT for Cambria County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1996, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cambria County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:43 PM EDT | Hail | Johnstown, PA | |
| Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Windber, PA | |
| Jun 14, 4:51 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Southmont, PA | |
| Jun 14, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnstown, PA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 142044 SVRCTP PAC021-111-142145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 443 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...SOUTHERN CAMBRIA COUNTY...SOMERSET COUNTY AT 440 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF JOHNSTOWN. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY BEFORE 5 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 14, 2:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 215 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 JUST LIKE CLOCKWORK...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STARTING TO FIRE ACROSS CENTRAL PA BETWEEN 17Z AND 18Z...JUST LIKE THE LAST 4 DAYS. MODIFIED PIT SOUNDINGS EVEN A LITTLE MORE UNSTABLE THAN EARLY MORNING SOUNDING MODIFICATION...WITH LI/S AROUND -7 AND CAPES IN THE LOW 3000S. MOS DEWPOINTS LOOK TO BE AT LEAST 5 DEGREES TOO LOW FOR SOME SPOTS...ACCOUNTING FOR THE HIER INSTABILITIES. COLD FRONT IS REALLY TAKING IT/S TIME MOVING INTO THE AREA. THIS HAS ALLOWED THE SAME AIRMASS REGIME TO REMAIN OVER THE AREA ALL DAY TODAY. CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SPARSE...ALLOWING FOR WARMER TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON THAN YSTDY. ACTIVITY IS BEST ORGANIZED OVER NE COUNTIES...IN THE VCNTY OF A WEAK SPOKE OF UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE ENERGY. BACK OVER CENTRAL AND WESTERN SECTIONS...CONVECTION IS AGAIN PRETTY RANDOM. SURFACE MOISTURE CONV CHARTS SHOW BULLSEYE OVER CENTRAL PA AT 18Z...SINKING SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHERN PA BY 00Z. FRONT WILL CROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT...THEN ATMOSPHERE SLOWLY STABILIZES. GRIDDED DATA SUGGESTS LITTLE IN THE WAY OF CLOUDS SATURDAY...EXCEPT MAYBE ACROSS SOUTHERN 1/p3 OF STATE. WILL WRAP THIS UP...AS THINGS HEAT UP HERE AT THE NWSO... JUNG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-150100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 300 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNTIL 900 PM... THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS: WARREN... MCKEAN... POTTER... ELK AND CAMERON. IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS: CLEARFIELD... CENTRE AND CLINTON. IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND LAUREL HIGHLANDS: CAMBRIA... SOMERSET... BEDFORD... BLAIR... FULTON... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN... JUNIATA AND FRANKLIN. IN THE MIDDLE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: TIOGA... LYCOMING... SULLIVAN... UNION... SNYDER... COLUMBIA... NORTHUMBERLAND AND MONTOUR. IN THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: PERRY... CUMBERLAND... ADAMS... DAUPHIN... LEBANON... SCHUYLKILL... YORK AND LANCASTER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ARE ALL POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JUNG
Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:18 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
417 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996
TIME EDT ...CITY LOCATION..........ST ...EVENT/REMARKS
...COUNTY LOCATION........
0400 PM WINDpBER PA WIND DAMAGE
06/14/96 SOMERSET LINES DOWNED BY WINDS
IN WINDBER
DUNHAMThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 7:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 109 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.