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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS State College, PA

October 18, 1996Potter County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 18, 1996, 7:23 PM EDT for Potter County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 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: Oct 18, 1996, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 67 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 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 18, 2:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 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
Oct 18, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk	45 min
Oct 18, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin, Huntingdon	63 min
Oct 18, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	63 min
Oct 18, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Juniata, Mifflin	69 min
Oct 18, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton	64 min
Oct 18, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland	55 min
Oct 18, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Perry	65 min
Oct 18, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	60 min
Oct 18, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder, Union	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.