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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS State College, PA

June 14, 1996Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 8:28 PM EDT for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1996, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Schuylkill County, PA

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 Jun 14, 2:24 PM EDT, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:24 PM EDT, 6 hours 4 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, 5 hours 20 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, 4 hours 10 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

DUNHAM
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 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
555 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MCKEAN AND WARREN COUNTIES.

...THE REST OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA REMAINS UNDER A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 900 PM...

THE COUNTIES REMAINING IN THE WATCH ARE:

IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS:

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
THROUGH EARLY EVENING.  REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND NEAR T@HE
WATCH AREA.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

FITZGERALD
Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
645 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996

TIME EDT   ...CITY LOCATION..........ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS
           ...COUNTY LOCATION........

0400 PM    WINDBER                   PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/96   SOMERSET                       WIRES DOWN

0440 PM    BEDFORD                   PA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/96   BEDFORD                        .6 RAIN IN HALF HOUR

0443 PM    JOHNSTOWN                 PA   .85 INCH HAIL
06/14/96   CAMBRIA                        NICKLE SIZE HAIL 5S
                                          OF JOHNSTOWN

0451 PM    SOUTHMONT                 PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/96   CAMBRIA                        TREE DOWN

0455 PM    HUGHESVILLE               PA   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/96   LYCOMING                       TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE
                                          AND CAR

0515 PM    JOHNSTOWN                 PA   FLASH FLOOD
06/14/96   CAMBRIA                        HOUSE WITH WATER IN
                                          UPPER YODER TOWNSHIP

0545 PM    JOHNSTOWN                 PA   FLASH FLOOD
06/14/96   CAMBRIA                        5 TO 6 FEET OF WATER
                                          ON RTE 56
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:55 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
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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.