Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2000, 11:11 PM EDT for Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 15, 2000, 11:11 PM EDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elk County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 12:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilcox, PA | Thunderstorm winds took 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 973 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KCTP 160313 SVRCTP PAC047-160415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1111 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELK COUNTY. * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT. * AT 1103 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF JOHNSONBURG...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KANE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... JOHNSONBURG AT 1120 PM. 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. $$ LAT...LON 4167 7895 4148 7896 4142 7847 4162 7848 MSE
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 15, 9:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 9:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 930 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2000 ...WORK ZONES OUT AS PHLADMCTP... REGIONAL RADAR LOOP SHOWING STORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE EASTERN GRT LKS AHEAD OF APPROACHING CDFRONT. LATEST RUC/ETA SUGGEST LITTLE WEAKENING OF SHOWERS STORMS OVERNIGHT AS ATMOS REMAINS QUITE UNSTABLE. WILL KEEP HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE NW...LOWEST SE. .CTP...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3 AM FOR NW MTNS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 10:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
PAZ004>006-010-011-037-160700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1010 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 3AM... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH VALID UNTIL 3 AM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN PENNSYLVANIA... WARREN...MCKEAN...POTTER...TIOGA...ELK AND CAMERON. AN ADVANCING COLD FRONT IS TRIGGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE CAUSING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS...SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 12:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 12:23 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk | 37 min |
| Aug 16, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 12:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 2:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 54 min |
Nearby
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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.