Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1996, 7:07 PM EDT for Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 68 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, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
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, 6 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:03 PM EDT, 6 hours 4 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
Local storm report, Jun 11, 2:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 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
WIDENORThe 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, 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 |
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.