Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 9:26 PM EDT for Potter County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 79 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 20, 1996, 9:26 PM EDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1996, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Potter County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 997 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 20, 12:43 PM EDT, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 12:43 PM EDT, 8 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean, Warren | 64 min |
| Aug 21, 5:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.