Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 1996, 10:29 AM EST for Snyder County, Union County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 46 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
- Nov 8, 1996, 10:29 AM EST (15:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 1996, 11:15 AM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Snyder County, PA, Union County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 11:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Beaver Spgs, PA | |
| Nov 8, 11:15 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | New Columbia, 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 nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 563 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Nov 8, 9:56 AM EST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 9:56 AM EST, 33 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 950 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996 ...ZONE SUGGESTIONS/COORDINATION... PER CORD WILL KEEP FFA AS IS...TOR WATCH FOR CENTRAL PA INCLUDING THE LOWER SUS TIL 3 PM. GETTING REPORTS OF SEVERE FLOODING ACROSS NORTH-CENTRAL PA...ESPECIALLY TIOGA COUNTY WHERE EVACUATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE. ALSO GOT REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE ACROSS S PA WITH SHARP SQUALL LINE FEATURE. COLD FRONT TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST NEXT 12 HRS...HVY RAINS FOR E PA A GOOD BET THIS AFTN. TRW WILL ALSO BE A THREAT. ...LAKE SNOW OUTLOOK... FRI 12 NOON - 7PM...N FRI 7PM - SAT 7AM...N SAT 7AM - SAT 7PM...Y (LATE IN THE PERIOD) WINTHER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 9:35 AM EST, 54 minutes before
PAZ012-018-019-026>028-035>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059- 063>066-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 935 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: ADAMS... CENTRE... CLINTON... DAUPHIN... HUNTINGDON... LANCASTER... SNYDER... FRANKLIN... JUNIATA... LEBANON... LYCOMING... NORTHUMBERLAND... SOMERSET... TIOGA... CUMBERLAND... FULTON... MIFFLIN... MONTOUR... PERRY... SCHUYLKILL... SULLIVAN... UNION... YORK. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THIS STATE LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. IN ADDITION...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE TO PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 9:45 AM EST, 44 minutes before
PAZ012-018-019-026>028-035>037-041-042-045-046-049>053-056>059- 063>066-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 935 AM EST FRI NOV 8 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE: ADAMS... CENTRE... CLINTON... DAUPHIN... HUNTINGDON... LANCASTER... SNYDER... FRANKLIN... JUNIATA... LEBANON... LYCOMING... NORTHUMBERLAND... SOMERSET... TIOGA... CUMBERLAND... FULTON... MIFFLIN... MONTOUR... PERRY... SCHUYLKILL... SULLIVAN... UNION... YORK. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THIS STATE LATE THIS MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. IN ADDITION...CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE TO PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS> CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 8:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Tioga | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 49 min |
| Nov 8, 8:48 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 72 min |
| Nov 8, 9:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Centre | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 9:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 9:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Mifflin | 55 min |
| Nov 8, 9:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata | 55 min |
| Nov 8, 9:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 9:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 62 min |
| Nov 8, 10:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 69 min |
| Nov 8, 10:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Tioga | 49 min |
| Nov 8, 10:29 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 46 min |
| Nov 8, 10:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Montour, Northumberland | 60 min |
| Nov 8, 11:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Sullivan | 66 min |
| Nov 8, 11:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 60 min |
| Nov 8, 1:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Tioga | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 56 min |
| Nov 8, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 59 min |
| Nov 8, 3:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 4:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Tioga | 5 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.