Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 3:56 PM EDT for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 4:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schuylkill County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Pottsville, 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
896 WUUS01 KCTP 131957 RRA SVRCTP PAC107-132055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 356 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SCHUYLKILL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 455 PM EDT * AT 352 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER POTTSVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PORT CARBON AT 405 PM EDT SNYDERS AT 420 PM EDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS JUNG/ONDREJIK
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 13, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 145 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 WORK ZONES TO BE SENT TO PIT AND PHL BY 230 PM. ...DISCUSSION... TSRA DEVELOPING RIGHT ON Q WITH SMALL HAIL REPORTED IN OGLESTOWN... NORTHEAST SOMERSET COUNTY. VIL OF 34 WHILE THIS WAS OCCURING. VIL BUMPED UP TO 41 AT 1255 PM SO WE WARNED SOUTHERN BLAIR COUNTY. GETTING REPORTS OF 35 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM FULTON AND SOUTHERN BLAIR COUNTIES. STORMS SEEM TO BE INTENSIFYING SO IT WILL BE A BUSY AFTN. HENCE FORTH NO TIME TO BE VERBOSE BUT DO WANT TO THANK TONY FOR PHONE COORD. AGREE THAT FFA SHUD BE LEFT AS IS. WILL HAVE TO WAIT ON WHETHER TO ADD YORK COUNTY. BUT PIVOT POINT ON NEW ETA APPRS TO BE A BIT FURTHER EAST SO +TSRA SHUD MOVE THRU YORK B4 STALLING E OF THE RIVER. IF TSTM COMPLEX BEGINS SLOWING DOWN WILL COORD EXPANSION OF FFA. HEAD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1100 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... SCHUYLKILL... LEBANON... DAUPHIN... AND LANCASTER. HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT HAS SATURATED THE GROUND AND RAISED STREAM LEVELS TO NEAR BANK FULL. RAIN IS CONTINUING OVER THE REGION AND EXPECTED TO BECOME HEAVIER LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS MAY RESULT IN SMALL STREAM FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS A POSSIBILITY... NOT A CERTAINTY. PERSONS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THEIR AREA AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF A WARNING IS ISSUED LATER TODAY OR THIS EVENING. HEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.