Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 12:50 AM EDT for Centre County, Clinton 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 16, 2000, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Centre County, PA, Clinton County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 160513 COR SVRCTP PAC027-035-160545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1250 AM EDT WED AUG 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRE COUNTY. CLINTON COUNTY. * UNTIL 145 AM EDT. * AT 1243 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF RENOVO...OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOCK HAVEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ORVISTON AT 100 AM. RENOVO AT 105 AM. BEECH CREEK AT 110 AM. 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. $$ ...CORRECTED SPEED OF THE THUNDERSTORM... LAT...LON 4145 7795 4116 7808 4101 7757 4144 7770 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, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 9:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 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, 2 hours 40 minutes 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 15, 11:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 64 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, 12:55 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.