Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT for Centre County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 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, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Centre County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Potters Mills, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 082302 RRA SVRCTP PAC027-090000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 701 PM EDT SAT JUN 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...EASTERN CENTRE COUNTY AT 659 PM STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING EASTERN CENTRE COUNTY JUST NORTH OF MILROY. THE STORM WILL CONTINUE NORTH THROUGH EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY THROUGH 8PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF WIND DAMAGE IN MIFFLIN COUNTY. 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, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 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, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 64 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.