Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 2:51 AM EDT for Dauphin County, Northumberland County, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 54 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, 2:51 AM EDT (06:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dauphin County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
588 WUUS51 KCTP 160651 SVRCTP PAC043-097-107-160745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 251 AM EDT WED AUG 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAUPHIN COUNTY. SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY. * UNTIL 345 AM EDT. * AT 241 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF PILLOW...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SELINSGROVE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... REINERTON AND TOWER CITY AT 300 AM. PINE GROVE AND TREMONT AT 310 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. $$ ONDREJIK LAT...LON 4078 7676 4063 7688 4045 7652 4065 7624
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 16, 2:30 AM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:30 AM EDT, 21 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 230 AM EDT WED AUG 16 2000 A FAIR AMOUNT OF SEVERE WX ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL PA EARLY THIS AM WITH SOME ISOLATED TREE DAMAGE REPORTED. THE COLD FRONT IS JUST GETTING TO NW PA ATTM...BETWEEN ERI AND BFD AT 06Z. MODELS IN AGREEMENT IN BRINGING THE FRONT QUICKLY SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE CWA EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ENDING BY AROUND DAYBREAK. MODELS SHOWING LOTS OF LOW-LVL DRYING COMING IN TODAY SO DON'T THINK THERE WILL BE MUCH CU THIS AFTERNOON. WILL MENTION LESS HUMID IN THE ALL OF THE ZONES AS THE CHANGE WILL BE NOTICEABLE. CLEAR AND COOL TONIGHT AS THE HIGH BUILDS IN. SOME MID AND HI LEVEL MOISTURE WILL TRY TO STREAK IN FROM THE WEST ON THURSDAY...CLOUDIEST IN THE WEST AND SUNNIEST IN THE NORTHEAST. SFC WAVE WILL BRING A CHC OF SHOWERS ON FRIDAY. ALL OF THE MODELS KEEP THE WAVE FAIRLY WEAK AND SOUTH OF PA2 SO THUNDER CHANCES FRIDAY LOOK SMALL. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WILL BE DRY AND UNSEASONABLY COOL. .CTP...NONE. MSE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 10:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 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
Local storm report, Aug 16, 1:06 AM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE, PA
106 AM EDT WED AUG 16 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1106 PM PLEASANT TWP PA WIND DAMAGE
08/15/00 WARREN TREES DOWN ON RT 62
1145 PM KANE PA WIND DAMAGE
08/15/00 MCKEAN TREES DOWN NEAR KANE
1200 AM WILCOX PA WIND DAMAGE
08/16/00 ELK TREES DOWN
1205 AM LEMONT PA WIND DAMAGE
08/16/00 ELK TREES DOWN
ONDREJIKThe 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, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 12:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 35 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.