Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 4:30 AM EDT for Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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 11, 1996, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elk County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 11, 2:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 215 AM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996 ...ZONE SUGGESTIONS... CHC POPS RW/TRW NEXT 3 PD/S. PATCHY FOG LATE AT NIGHT. ...DISCUSSION... KCCX 88D SHOWS BKN LINE OF RW/TRW WORKG INTO NC PA. ACVTY APPEARS TO HV FORMED FROM CAA ALOFT ASSCTD S/W FEATURE THAT WAS LIFTG THRU PA. LATEST SFC ANYLS SHOWS A TROUGH ACRS PA CLSE TO WHERE CNVTN WAS LOCATED ON RADAR THAT PROBABLY WAS FORMED DUE TO LATENT HEATING FROM THE CNVTN ITSELF. ACVTY WILL BE OUT OF CWA BEFORE 5 AM AND PROBABLY CAN BE DEALT WITH IN NOWCTP ONLY AND NOT IN AM ZONES. 8 KM WV IMAGERY SHOWS ANTHER UPR LVL S/W ACRS SRN APPLCNS. I TIME THIS FEATURE TO WRN PA BY 12Z. ETA SEEMS TO HNDL THIS FEATURE THE BEST AS SEEN IN THE 500 MB HGHT/VORT FIELDS. THIS NEXT FEATURE CUD SET OFF MORE RW/TRW BUT EXPECT IT WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO TIME OF DAY. JUST (30 POP) SCTRD ACVTY FOR ZONES THIS MORN. 8 KM WV IMAGERY ALSO SHOWS A LARGER S/W TROUGH WORKG ARND UPR LVL CIRCN CENTER OVR MO ERLY THIS MORN. ALL THREE MODELS CAPTURE THIS FEATURE AND BRING A HEALTHY LOOKING VORT-LOBE ACRS PA BTWN 00Z AND 06Z TONIGHT. THIS FEATURE ARRIVES CLOSE TO THE MAX B.L TEMPS LATE IN THE DAY AND LIKELY WILL SUPPLY ENUF UVV/S TO CONDITION ENV FOR ANTHER ROUND OF CNVTN FOR CWA. END RESULT... SCTRD RW/TRW THIS AFTRN INTO OVRNGT HOURS... MUCH LIKE THIS MORN! FOR WED... ALL MODELS INDICATE THAT UPR LVL LO BEGINS TO LIFT AND OPEN UP AS IT WORKS TWD AREA. 500 MB TEMPS WARM A COUPLE OF DEGREES BY WED TOO WITHIN THE UPR LOW CNTR/TROUGH INDICATIVE OF WEAKENING. MODELS INDICATE ANTHER VORT LOBE/SHRT WV FEATURE ROUNDS BASE OF LONG WV UPR TROUGH AND AFFECTS PA AGAIN WITH THE SAME RESULT... CONTINUED CHC POPS FOR RW/TRW WED. NICOSIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Cambria | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 3:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, York | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 58 min |
| Jun 11, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 83 min |
| Jun 11, 5:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 73 min |
| Jun 11, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford | 73 min |
| Jun 11, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 69 min |
| Jun 11, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 68 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.