Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT for Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 8, 10:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 10:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 955 AM EDT MON JUL 8 1996 PLENTY OF CLD COVER ACROSS MUCH OF THE FCST/A THIS AM. VIS SAT PICTURE SHOWS CLRING TREND WORKtING INTO NW PA ATTM. BEST INSTABILITY ACROSS S 1/4 OF STATE...HENCE KEEP CHC POPS THIS AFTN IN THIS AREA. NEXT SHRTWV MOVES INTO REGION TONIGHT BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF TRW/RW TO FCST/A. WINTHER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 11:07 AM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
PAZ004>06-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041>042-045>046- 049>053-056>059-063>066-082200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1105 AM EDT MON JULY 8 1996 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER SAYS THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS ALL OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF BRADFORD...JOHNSTOWN...STATE COLLEGE...WILLIAMSPORT...AND HARpRISBURG. CONDITIONS LATER THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF WHICH MAY BECOME SEVERE. SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS A RESULT. WINTHER
Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:29 PM EDT, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 68 min |
| Jul 8, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Montour, Northumberland | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 69 min |
| Jul 8, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.