Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2000, 4:50 PM EDT for Northumberland County, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 1, 2000, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Northumberland County, PA, Snyder County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 012051 SVRCTP PAC097-109-012145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 450 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SNYDER COUNTY. NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 447 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MIDDLEBURG...OR 8 MILES WEST OF SELINSGROVE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FREEBURG AT 455 PM. HERNDON AT 500 PM. HUMMELS WHARF AND SELINSGROVE AT 505 PM. SHAMOKIN DAM AT 510 PM. NORTHUMBERLAND AND SUNBURY AT 515 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS 58 MPH OR STRONGER OR HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER.> $$ ONDREJIK LAT...LON 4084 7719 4066 7723 4072 7668 4092 7669
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 1, 2:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 200 PM EDT TUE AUG 01 2000 S/W PULLING (YES...ACTUALLY MOVING) UP INTO NYS FM OH THIS AFTN...AND LIGHTING UP WRN/NRN PA ATTM. DIURNALLY/OROGRAPHICALLY DRIVEN TSRA ALSO POPPING IN SE. THINGS ACTUALLY MOVING TODAY...BUT TRAINING/REPEATING TSRA STILL A CONCERN. FAINT BOUNDARY OV POCONOS CONTINUES TO WORRY ME AS A FOCUS FOR TSTM DEVLPMNT...ESP AS THIS COOLING ALOF NEARS DURING PEAK HEATING. FFA AGAIN??? OH BOY. GOTTA AGREE W/PIT ON THIS ONE...WL NOT ISSUE FFA UNLESS I CAN SEE THE WHITES OF IT/S EYES. PROGRESSION IS 9 TENTHS OF THE LAW. THE ETA PLAYS A SCENARIO LIKE YSDTY OF THINGS DYING OFF RIGHT AT SSET. THIS WUD BE WELCOME NEWS...AS PWS/AVBL MSTR STILL VERY HI ATTM. WED LOOKING LIKE A LOW POP DAY...DESPITE THE POTENTIAL. JET DYNAMICS NOT QUITE COMING TOGETHER...AS AREA PROGGD TO BE ALMOST (KEY WORD) IN RIGHT ENT REGION OF UPR JET. GOOD FRONT TO PASS ON THURS AND SIGNAL THE (DEFACTO) END TO THIS PTRN. XTNDD: STILL LOOKING MAINLY DRY SAT...BUT FRI & SUN SURROUND IT W/CHC POPS. LONGER RANGE ENSEMBLE SHOWING LONGWV TROF TO DIG OVHD OR CLOSER TO THE E COAST THAN CURR BEAST...WHILE BROAD RIDGE DEVLPS IN MIDWEST/PLAINS. THIS SHUD BE A MORE PROGRESSIVE AND NOT SO WET PTRN FOR US. FMR TEMPS CLOSE TO SEASONALS...AND SEE NO REASON TO STRAY. .CTP...NONE. DANGELO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-020134- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 250 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MOVING THROUGH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND DAYTIME HEATING HAVE COMBINED FORCES. THE STORMS ARE PROGRESSING STEADILY EASTWARD...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE BY SUNSET. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE DOWN THROUGH THE EVENING...AS WE LOSE THE HEATING OF THE DAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MPH AND SOME SMALL HAIL. MANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE ENOUGH RAIN IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME TO BRIEFLY CAUSE STREETS TO BECOME WATER-COVERED AND SMALL STREAMS TO FILL. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...OR A PLACE THAT HAS RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN IN THE PAST FEW DAYS...PLEASE MONITOR THE WATER LEVELS NEAR YOUR HOME. IF TRAVELING...DO NOT CROSS WATER THAT COVERS THE ROADWAY. LISTEN TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATEOS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DANGELO
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 4:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.