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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS State College, PA

August 23, 1996Potter County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 2:35 PM EDT for Potter County, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 23, 1996, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Potter County, PA, Tioga County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 160 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCameron, Elk55 min
Aug 23, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPElk61 min
Aug 23, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClearfield66 min
Aug 23, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPTioga31 min

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.