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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS State College, PA

August 13, 1997Dauphin County, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1997, 5:02 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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
Aug 13, 1997, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dauphin County, PA, Lancaster County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 12, 7:54 PM EDT, 21 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 7:54 PM EDT, 21 hours 8 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.