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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS State College, PA

June 11, 1996Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 4:46 PM EDT for Schuylkill 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 11, 1996, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Schuylkill County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn, 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 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, 5 hours 41 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

Local storm report, Jun 11, 2:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
0300 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 1996

TIME EDT   ...CITY LOCATION..........ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS
           ...COUNTY LOCATION........

0230 PM    DIL2LSBURG                 PA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/96   YORK                           GOLF-BALL SIZE HAIL

WIDENOR

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, 2:30 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, 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.