Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS State College, PA

Issued

Jun 11, 2000, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)

Expired

Jun 11, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS State College, PA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Mifflin County, PA, Snyder County, 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.

000 
WUUS51 KCTP 112336
SVRCTP
PAC087-109-120030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
737 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SNYDER COUNTY.
  NORTHEASTERN MIFFLIN COUNTY.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 734 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LEWISTOWN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCCLURE...MOVING EAST AT
  25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MCCLURE AT 745 PM.
  BEAVERTOWN AT 800 PM.
  MIDDLEBURG AT 810 PM.
  FREEBURG AT 825 PM.
  SELINSGROVE AT 830 PM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

$$
GRUMM
LAT...LON 4083 7744 4069 7753 4063 7692 4084 7685

NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 2:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
255 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 2000

WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWING S/WV OVER UPPER MID WEST...WHICH IS POISED
TO TRACK SE ACROSS THE NE STATES OVER THE NEXT 24 HRS. REGIONAL
RADAR LOOP SHOWING BAND OF SHOWERS/STORMS FROM GRT LKS TO NEW
ENGLAND ASSOCIATED WITH PLUME OF TROPICAL MOISTURE ON PERIPHERY OF E
COAST HI PRES SYSTEM.

THIS BAND OF SHOWERS/STORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTHWARD TONIGHT AND MONDAY
AS S/WV PASSES TO OUR NORTH. HOWEVER SFC FRONT...WHICH CURRENTLY
LIES ACROSS UPSTATE NY AND SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...WILL ONLY MAKE IT
INTO CENTRAL PA MON EVENING BASED ON LATEST GUIDANCE. SO...DESPITE
CLOUDS AND SHOWERS...MONDAY SHOULD BE ANOTHER MUGGY AND RELATIVELY
WARM DAY.

SHOULD SEE A RESPITE FROM THE SHOWERS/STORMS MON NITE...ESPECIALLY
NORTHERN SECTIONS...AS DRIER AIR FILTERS SOUTHWARD BEHIND COLD
FRONT. THEN BY F48 SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES DEVELOP BETWEEN MODELS.
AVN DEVELOPS POTENT S/WV PASSING THROUGH THE E GRT LKS...BRINGING
CONVECTION BACK INTO THE AREA WITH A RETURNING WARM FRONT.
HOWEVER...WILL LEAN TOWARDS THE CONSENSUS ETA/NGM SOLUTION...WHICH
APPEARS TO KEEP DEEP MOISTURE AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO OUR SOUTHWEST.

WORK ZONES ALREADY SENT AS PHLADMCTP.

.CTP...SPS FOR SLIGHT RISK SEVERE INTO THE EVENING OVER NORTHERN PA.

FITZGERALD

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.