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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS State College, PA

September 12, 1996Bedford County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 1996, 7:53 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 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: Sep 12, 1996, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 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 23:52 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
Sep 12, 8:13 PM EDT	Hail 1	Bedford Springs, 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 Sep 12, 2:09 PM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:09 PM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 12, 4:23 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 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
Sep 12, 6:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Cumberland	5 hr
Sep 12, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk	57 min
Sep 12, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean	58 min
Sep 12, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter	58 min
Sep 12, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron	59 min
Sep 12, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter	63 min

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.