Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 2:27 PM EDT for Blair County, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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 22, 1996, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blair County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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 22, 3:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Huntingdon, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 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
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, 2:10 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:10 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 PARTS OF PA/OH/NY IN WARM SECTOR NOW...STRONG DIRECTIONAL SHEAR AND INSTABILITY PRESENT. BEST WIND FIELDS OUT OF OUR AREA...BUT CANT RULE OUT ISOL. TORNADOES. EXPECT MOST OF THE ACTION TO BE OUT OF OUR AREA AFTER A FEW MORE HOURS...GIVEN SPEED. TEMPS WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER SUNDAY...A NICE DAY. PHI...WORK ZONES LOOK OK...JUST CAM(E IN...SO I DID NOT LOOK AT MUCH. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-230000- 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, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 81 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, 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, 1996Every 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.