Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 8:25 PM EDT for Elk County, McKean County, Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min. 3 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
- Apr 12, 1996, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 8:29 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Warren, PA | |
| Apr 12, 8:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Russell City, PA | |
| Apr 12, 8:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradford, 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 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 Apr 12, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 2:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 8:00 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>026-045-130400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 759 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... WARREN... MCKEAN... POTTER... ELK... CAMERON CLINTON...CLEARFIELD...CENTRE... CAMRIA...BLAIR AND HUNTINGDON.... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS OHIO EARLIER THIS EVENING AND PRODUCED DAMAGE DUE TO HIGH WINDS. THIS LINE HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND WILL TRACK ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. AS OF 8 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING WARREN COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. TON(E ALERT YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE STATION FOR WEATHER INFORMATION IN CASE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. GRUMM
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 8:05 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>026-045-130400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 805 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... WARREN... MCKEAN... POTTER... ELK... CAMERON CLINTON...CLEARFIELD...CENTRE... CAMRIA...BLAIR...MIFFLIN AND HUNTINGDON.... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS OHIO EARLIER THIS EVENING AND PRODUCED DAMAGE DUE TO HIGH WINDS. THIS LINE HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND WILL TRACK ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. AS OF 8 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING WARREN COUNTY. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL*. TONE ALERT YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR STAY TUNED TO YOUR FAVORITE STATION FOR WEATHER INFORMATION IN CASE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. CORRECTED TO ADD MIFFLIN COUNTY. GRUMM/SKEEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield | 70 min |
| Apr 12, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 70 min |
| Apr 12, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 62 min |
| Apr 12, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 62 min |
| Apr 12, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 62 min |
| Apr 12, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 61 min |
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.