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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS State College, PA

June 4, 1996Snyder County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1996, 7:23 PM EDT for Snyder 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: Jun 4, 1996, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Snyder County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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
Jun 4, 7:35 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Middleburg, 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 4, 2:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
240 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 1996

GETTING RATHER BUSY AROUND HERE...
VIL OF THE DAY...35 FOR CURRENT ACTIVITY. GREENCASTLE HAD A 1/2-
3/4 INCH WITH A VIL OF 35. ANOTHER REPORT OF 5/6 INCH HAIL WITH
VILS IN THE UPPER 30'S (ALSO IN FRANKLIN CNTY).

ATM BECOMING MORE UNSTABLE AS COLDER TEMPS MOVE INTO REGION AT
5H. ADAP INDICATES BEST MOIST CONVERGENCE/INSTABILITY ACROSS
SOUTH-CENTRAL PA ATTM.

RW/TRW WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVE HRS WITH MODELS INDICATING BEST
FORCING ACROSS SE PA AND NW PA. ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE DOWN AFTER
MIDNIGHT WITH DIURNAL HEATING LOST.

ANOTHER SHRTWV WILL CLIP N PA WED AFTN/EVE SO ANOTHER SHOT OF RW-
FOR THIS AREA WED AFTN.

WINTHER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 4:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 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
Jun 4, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Franklin, Juniata, Perry	67 min
Jun 4, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder	65 min
Jun 4, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	61 min
Jun 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming	51 min
Jun 4, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Northumberland	62 min
Jun 4, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	57 min
Jun 4, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia	45 min
Jun 4, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	60 min
Jun 4, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	58 min
Jun 4, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	36 min
Jun 4, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	65 min
Jun 4, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Huntingdon	62 min
Jun 4, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	44 min
Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Mifflin	69 min
Jun 4, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.