Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 1:35 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 19, 1996, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Needmore, 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 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 19, 9:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 9:44 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 10:14 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>05 3-056>059-063>066-191600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1015 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 804 FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED FOR THE TIME BEING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE~ REGION. SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE REACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON. HEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 5:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 5:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 5:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 5:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 5:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 5:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 6:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 9:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 10:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 10:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 7 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 11:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 11:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 48 min |
| Jul 19, 11:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Blair | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cambria | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 12:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Blair | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 12:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 39 min |
| Jul 19, 12:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 12:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 12:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 12:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Franklin, Huntingdon | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 1:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 1:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 63 min |
| Jul 19, 1:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Adams | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Adams | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 5:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.