Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1996, 5:16 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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 20, 1996, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lycoming County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 20, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsport, 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 Jun 20, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 240 PM EDT THU JUN 20 1996 RUNNING LATE .... LL MOISTURE POOLING ACROSS S-CENTRAL PA/N VA. THIS WILL BE THE AREA OF CONCERN OVER THE NEXT 3-4 HRS. ELSEWHERE TRW/RW SHOULD DIMINISH ACROSS W PA SO NO NEED FOR FFA ACROSS W CWA WITH NEW PACKAGE. COLD FRONT MOVES TO EAST COAST TONIGHT LEAVING DRY AIR IN ITS WAKE. SKIES SHOULD BECOME PTLY CLDY/MO CLR LATE. FRIDAY SHO*ULD BE DRY FOR THE MOST PART. APPROACHING MID LEVEL SHRTWV MAY TRIGGER SOME TRW/RW ACROSS NW PA LATE IN THE DAY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 3:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Perry | 67 min |
| Jun 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 20, 7:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Fulton | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.