Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports 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 11, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, PA, York County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:30 PM EDT | Hail | Dillsburg, PA | |
| Jun 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mechanicsburg, PA | |
| Jun 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Labott, 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
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, 1:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 100 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996 CLUSTER OF STORMS OVER N VA...SOME WILL MOVE INTO SUSQ VLY. ANOTHER CLUSTER OVER OH LOOK LIKE THEY WILL MOVE WEST OF OUR AREA. ACTION SHOULD DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET. AS UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS REGION LATE WED...MORE SHOWERS AND STORMS PSBL. MAYBE A TREND TOWARD BETTER WX BY THU. MAY UPDATE THIS DISC. IF NEW MODELS CO<ME IN. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:05 AM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-037-041-042-045-046- 049>053-056>059-063>066-112300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1100 AM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION...STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORKS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MARTIN
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, 4:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.