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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT for Centre County, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 8, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 082204 SVRCTP PAC027-033-082300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 600 PM EDT SAT JUN 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...WESTERN CENTRE COUNTY...CLEARFIELD COUNTY AT 559 PM STATE COOLEGE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A PAIR OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THE FIRST ENTERING WESTERN CENTRE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF HANNAH. THE SECOND STORM IS JUST SOUTH OF CLEARFIELD. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT WESTERN CENTRE COUNTY AND MUCH OF CLEARFIELD COUNTY BETWEEN 6 AND 630 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. LA CORTE
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 8, 1:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 110 PM EDT SAT JUN 8 1996 FEW SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFT AND EVEN...GIVEN HEATING OF THIS HI DEWPT AIR. WEAK WINDS ALOFT...SO SVR NOT REAL LIKELY. CELLS APPEAR TO BE MOVING AND FFG IS HI...SO NOT EXPECTING A MESS IN THIS DEPT. SOME FOG LATER TONIGHT IN SPOTS...ESP. WHERE IT RAINS. MAYBE SOME SHOWERS/STORMS SUN AFT AGAIN...BUT HEIGHTS ARE FCST TO BE ON 0THE RISE...SO LESS ACTIVITY LIKELY. HARD TO CALL TIME AND LOCATION OF CONV. MONDAY. NGM SHOWS SOME DRY AIR COMING IN...COULD MAKE FOR MORE IN THE WAY OF STORMS. TEMPS NEXT FEW DAYS...MAINLY 60S/80S. WRKZNS FROM PHI LOOK OK. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.