Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 8:08 PM EDT for Indiana County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 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
- Aug 20, 1996, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1996, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 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 00:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 9:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jacksonville, PA | |
| Aug 20, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Graceton, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 1179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 55 min |
| Aug 21, 2:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 64 min |
| Aug 21, 5:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.