Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 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 27, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 2:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 2:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 230 PM EDT TUE AUG 27 1996 ...ZONE SUGGESTIONS... ...PHL...WUD LOWER POPS UPPER SUSQ ZONES AS FORCING SEEMS TO WANT TO STAY MAINLY SOUTH OF THIS AREA. UPPER SHORT WAVE SLIDING EAST OF AREA SHUD MINIMIZE POPS FOR WED. ...PIT...THINK NRN ZONES WILL SEE MINIMUM CHC POPS OVERNIGHT. SRN ZONES BEST CHC. REST OF ZONES LOOK OK. ...DISCUSSION... THUNDER FIRING NOW APPARENTLY IN RESPONSE TO LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE WHICH IS BEING CONCENTRATED OVER HIGHER ELEVATIONS DUE TO DIABATIC HEATING AFFECTS. GENERAL CONVECTION CAN BE SEEN CONCENTRATING FROM VA/WV NORTHEASTWARD INTO SERN PA. LOCALIZED FLOODING ALREADY UNDERWAY IN YORK CTY PA. EXPECT MOST ACTIVITY WILL BE DIURNALLY DEPENDANT WITH PRECIP TENDING TO WIND DOWN AS WE LOSE HEATING AND AS UPPER TROF SWINGS THRU BY AROUND MIDNIGHT. WEAK WINDS WILL MAKE AREAS VULNERABLE TO SLOW MOVING CELLS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING. GRIDDS INDICATE NVA AND DIVERGING FLOW IN LOW LEVELS WED. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS KIND OF HIGH BUT AFTER ERLY CLOUDS...SHUD SEE DRYING SETTING IN FROM WEST TO EAST AS SFC LOW FORMS AND MOVES OFF SRN NEW ENG COAST. LA CORTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 1:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | McKean, Potter | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 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.