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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 9:42 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 15, 1996, 9:42 PM EDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 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 01:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 12:07 PM EDT, 9 hours 35 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, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 65 min |
| 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, 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.