Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1996, 6:26 PM EDT for Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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 8, 1996, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mifflin County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Reedsville, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
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 8, 1:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 20 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, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.