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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS State College, PA

June 22, 1996Centre County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 1:54 PM EDT for Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 81 min. 2 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 22, 1996, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 81 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Centre County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 22, 2:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Matilda, PA
Jun 22, 2:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Grove Mills, 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 22, 9:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 9:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:12 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1248 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES 664 AND 665 ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF
PENNSYLVANIA EXCEPT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST UNTIL 6 PM EDT...

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ARE INCLUDED IN THE
WATCH...

IN THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU AND UPPER SUSQUEHANNA
WARREN   MCKEAN  POTTER  TIOGA AND SULLIVAN

IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
ELK  CAMERON  CLINTON  CLEARFIELD  CENTRE

IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS
CAMBRIA  BLAIR  HUNTINGDON  SOMERSET  BEDFORD AND FULTON

IN THE MIDDLE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY
LYCOMING  UNION  SNYDER  NORTHUMBERLAND  MONTOUR  COLUMBIA
MIFFLIN  JUNIATA AND PERRY

IN THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY AND SOUTHEASTERN PIEDMONT
FRANKLIN  CUMBERLAND  ADAMS  YORK  DAUPHIN  LEBANON
LANCASTER AND SCHULYKILL

THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NEW YORK STATE AND PENNSYLVANIA WILL DEVELOP
OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON.  LARGE
HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE
AS THE STORMS MOVE RAPIDLY EASTWARD.

BUDD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	63 min
Jun 22, 2:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Centre, Clearfield	60 min
Jun 22, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cambria	56 min
Jun 22, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Huntingdon	63 min
Jun 22, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Somerset	55 min
Jun 22, 6:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Somerset	116 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.