Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 6:33 PM EDT for Cameron County, Potter County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 2, 1996, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cameron County, PA, Potter County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:37 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Emporium, PA | |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Wharton, 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 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 Jul 2, 2:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 2:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 210 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996 KCCX RADAR SHOWS TSTM CELLS STARTING TO POP OVER WESTERN PA ATTM. THIS IS THE AREA ASSOCIATED WITH A GOOD MOIST TONGUE AT 850 MB AND A SKIGT THETA E RIDGE. ADAP GRAPHICS SHOW LI/S AROUND -10 IN WESTERN PA...WITH A 20-30 KT 850 MB LLJ MOVES ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALREADY HAVE LSR OF SVR HAIL. EXPECT CELLS TO CONTvINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL AREAS AS LLJ CONTINUES TO SLIDE EAST. SELS WATCH BOX JUST ISSUED...WILL KEEP THIS SHORT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:29 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
PAZ012-017>019-024>028-033>036-045-049-050-056-063-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 228 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: ACROSS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND LAUREL HIGHLANDS... CLEARFIELD... CENTRE... CLINTON....CAMBRIA AND SOMERSET. ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... BEDFORD... BLAIR... FULTON... FRANKLIN... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN AND JUNIATA. ACROSS THE MIDDLE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY... UNION AND SNYDER. ACROSS THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY... PERRY. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. A WARNING ON THE OTHER HAND MEANS SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WHETHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JUNG
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 3:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
PAZ012-017>019-024>028-033>036-045-049-050-056-030100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 320 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: ACROSS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND LAUREL HIGHLANDS... CLEARFIELD... CENTRE... CLINTON....CAMBRIA AND SOMERSET. ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... BEDFORD... BLAIR... FULTON... FRANKLIN... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN AND JUNIATA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. A WARNING ON THE OTHER HAND MEANS SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WHETHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS STATEMENT HAS BEEN CORRECTED TO EXCLUDE UNION... SNYDER AND PERRY COUNTIES. THESE THREE COUNTIES ARE NOT IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. JUNG
Local storm report, Jul 2, 5:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 65 min |
| Jul 2, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Cambria, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 76 min |
| Jul 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Union | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 84 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.