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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS State College, PA

August 13, 1999Cumberland County, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1999, 8:08 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 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, 1999, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1999, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA

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 13, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
325 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 1999

LINES OF SCATTERED TSRA NOW FORMING BACK IN W PA AND OHIO. WILL
PROBABLY SEE SOME ACTIVITY FIRE AND COME INTO WEST PA THIS EVENING
THEN WEAKEN BEFORE REACHING CENTRAL PA. MOST MODELS INITIALIZED TOO
WET...BUT LAST FEW RUNS OF MM5 HAVE BEEN CLOSER TO REALITY. WILL
LOWER POPS FOR TONIGHT TO CHC AND WORD AS MAINLY EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS.

SATURDAY WILL FEATURE MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIP AS SW TROF AXIS AND
VORT MOVE THRU...WITH MODEL SOUNDINGS INDICATING PLENTY OF DEEP
MOISTURE AND INSTABILTY TO BE TAPPED. WIND PROFILES ALSO SUGGEST SVR
POTENTIAL. WILL HAVE LIKELY POPS ALL ZONES. HEAVY RAIN AND POTENTIAL
FOR SVR WILL MAKE FOR AN INTERESTING DAY.

MOST SIG PRECIP SHUD BE EAST OF CTP CWA BY SAT EVE...WITH SHRA
LINGERING THRU OVERNIGHT PERIOD IN EAST ZONES. THINGS DRY OUT FOR
SUN...WITH MODERATING TEMPS INTO MIDWEEK.

.CTP...NONE.

OSTUNO/ SCALIO

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon, Juniata, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder67 min
Aug 13, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSchuylkill67 min
Aug 13, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster, Lebanon61 min
Aug 13, 10:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSchuylkill63 min
Aug 13, 11:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster60 min
Aug 14, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster, York56 min
Aug 14, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster64 min
Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork30 min
Aug 14, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPTioga57 min
Aug 14, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster55 min
Aug 14, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPerry64 min
Aug 14, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClinton66 min
Aug 14, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPColumbia, Montour65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.