Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 4:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
834 WUUS01 KCTP 081924 SVRCTP PAC071-082025- BULLETIN- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 325 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ...LANCASTER COUNTY AT 325 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR 28 MILES WEST OF LANCASTER OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARIETTA MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... MARIETTA BY 335 PM EDT MT JOY BY 340 PM EDT SAFE HARBOR BY 345 PM EDT MILLERSVILLE BY 350 PM EDT HOLTWOOD BY 350 PM EDT CONESTOGA BY 350 PM EDT LANCASTER BY 350 PM EDT STRASBURG BY 400 PM EDT NEW HOLLAND BY 405 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY. DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NICOSIA/JUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 63 min |
| Apr 8, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clinton | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.