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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Pittsburgh, PA

April 23, 1996Indiana County, Pennsylvania

NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 4:12 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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
Apr 23, 1996, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Pittsburgh, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Indiana County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 23, 4:20 PM EDTThunderstorm WindRobinson, PA
Apr 23, 4:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindArmagh, 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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZGreene46 min
Apr 23, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland64 min
Apr 23, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMonroe65 min
Apr 23, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZMarion, Monongalia46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.