Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS State College, PA
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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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon, Juniata, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 60 min |
| Aug 14, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 57 min |
| Aug 14, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 55 min |
| Aug 14, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 66 min |
| Aug 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 65 min |
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Sources
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