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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS State College, PA

August 15, 1996Tioga County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 8:25 PM EDT for Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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: Aug 15, 1996, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Tioga County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Aug 15, 8:29 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Elkland, 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 Aug 15, 12:07 PM EDT, 8 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 12:07 PM EDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1205 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996

FIRST SET OF STORMS DIED...FEW MORE TRYING TO FIRE NE PA...SE NY
...AND SE PA.

FIRST FRONT TO THE NORTH NOW...MAIN FRONT TO THE WEST...WITH
STRONG CELL N OF L ERIE.  BEST DYNAMICS STAY NW OF CWA THRU
00Z...AND WIND FIELDS NOT REAL STRONG...BUT INSTABILITY REMAINS
HI.

LOOKS LIKE ANYTHING THAT GETS GOING WILL BE OUT OF W PA BY
MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY LATER...WHILE ACTION COULD FIRE AGAIN ACROSS
E PA FRIDAY AFT...AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH COMES THRU.

LOOKS LIKE WE WILL GET THE FRONT THRU FOR THE WKEND...NOT MUCH
MORE THAN A WIND SHIFT LINE/HZ CLEANER...AS AIRMASS MODIFIES.

LOOKS >LIKE SAME OLD PATTERN WILL RELOAD AT SOME PT NEXT WK.

TEMPS NEAR NORMAL THROUGHOUT PERIOD.

MARTIN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 7:45 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Huntingdon	62 min
Aug 15, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton, Lycoming	66 min
Aug 15, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Fulton	33 min
Aug 15, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	55 min
Aug 16, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams, York	56 min
Aug 16, 5:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	York	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.