Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS State College, PA

October 18, 1996Juniata County, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1996, 6:51 PM EDT for Juniata County, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports 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
Oct 18, 1996, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Juniata County, PA, Mifflin County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 18, 7:00 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Mifflintown, PA
Oct 18, 7:10 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Lewistown, 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 Oct 18, 2:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 2:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPElk45 min
Oct 18, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPFranklin, Huntingdon63 min
Oct 18, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCentre63 min
Oct 18, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClinton64 min
Oct 18, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCumberland55 min
Oct 18, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPerry65 min
Oct 18, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams60 min
Oct 18, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPotter67 min
Oct 18, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSnyder, Union63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every 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.