Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2000, 6:13 PM EDT for Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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 21, 2000, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Millville, PA | Trees down. |
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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCTP 212214 SVRCTP PAC037-212315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 613 PM EDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLUMBIA COUNTY. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 609 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLOOMSBURG...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF MILLVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALMEDIA AND BENTON AT 620 PM. LIME RIDGE AT 625 PM. BRIAR CREEK AND MIFFLINVILLE AT 630 PM. DAMAGING WINDS KNOCKED DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES IN MONTOURSVILLE WITH THESE STORMS. SEEK SHELTER NOW! $$ LAT...LON 4115 7663 4082 7649 4093 7621 4131 7636 & LA CORTE
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 21, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 240 PM EDT WED JUN 21 2000 WILL KEEP THIS SHORT TODAY WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO AFFECT CWA AND A RECENT BOX FROM SPC. SENT OUT A QUICK ZONE UPDATE TO HEADLINE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND BEEF UP WORDING A LITTLE MORE. FOR THE NEW ZONES WHICH WILL HOPEFULLY HIT THE STREETS EARLY...WILL BREAK OUT AN EARLY EVENING PERIOD FOR THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD QUICKLY WEAKEN AROUND SUNSET AND WILL JUST CARRY A CHANCE FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. DRIER AIR WORKS IN LATER TONIGHT AND INTO THU...BUT COOLING ALOFT WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM FOR TOMORROW. AFTER THAT...HIGH PRESSURE KEEPS US DRY FRI AND SAT BEFORE MOISTURE AND RIPPLES IN THE LONGWAVE FLOW BRING BACK A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. NGM AND ETA BOTH QUITE SIMILAR TODAY...SO SEE NO REASON TO DEVIATE TOO MUCH FROM GUIDANCE. GENERALLY SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FAN AND FWC FOR LOWS AND TOOK THE HIGHER NUMBER FOR DAYTIME HIGHS. .CTP...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF CENTRAL PA TIL 7 PM.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056-057-063-064-212300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 212 PM EDT WED JUN 21 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH VALID UNTIL 7 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... ADAMS...BEDFORD...BLAIR...CAMBRIA...CAMERON...CENTRE...CLEARFIELD... CLINTON...COLUMBIA...CUMBERLAND...DAUPHIN...ELK...FRANKLIN... FULTON...HUNTINGDON...JUNIATA...LYCOMING...MCKEAN...MIFFLIN... MONTOUR...NORTHUMBERLAND...PERRY...POTTER...SNYDER...SOMERSET... SULLIVAN...TIOGA...UNION AND WARREN. A COLD FRONT...OVER NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...IS EXPECTED TO TRIGGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AS IT TRACKS EAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME LOCALLY SEVERE CAUSING DAMAGING WINDS. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 54 min |
| Jun 21, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 77 min |
| Jun 21, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 24 min |
| Jun 21, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Montour | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Snyder | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Juniata | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Perry | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 76 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 76 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 76 min |
| Jun 21, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 72 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.