Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1996, 4:45 AM EDT for 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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
- Jul 3, 1996, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1996, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Perry County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:10 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Mc Kinney, 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -1.6
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 3, 1:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 1:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 AM EDT WED JUL 3 1996 STORM NEAR PIT...IS ON EDGE OF BETTER DEWPTS...BUT IS NOW WEAKENING SOME...WHICH IS GOOD NEWS...GIVEN STRENGTH OF DYNAMICS. STILL TOO EARLY TO TELL IF STORM WILL CRANK UP BY EARLY AFTERNOON ACROSS LWR SUSQ. OTHERWISE...SOME CLOUDS AND SHOWERS TODAY...AS AIRMASS REMAINS SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE. PARTIAL CLEARING TONIGHT. EASTERN PART OF CWA MAY NOT CLEAR OUT TILL THU AM. TEMPS NEXT FEW DAYS...MAINLY 70S/50S. LIKE THE REST OF THE YEAR SO FAR...NO DECENT SFC HI TO BUILD IN...THUS COOL/STABLE AIR WILL NOT LAST LONG ONCE IN IT GETS INTO AREA. WIDE RANGE OF CONDITIONS EXPECTED IN XTAF DEPT THIS AM. WILL UPDATE DISC. LATER IF I SEE ANYTHING DIFF...ONCE I FINISH LOOING AT NEW RUNS ETC. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 4:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 2:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.