Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS State College, PA

Issued

Aug 27, 2000, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)

Expired

Aug 27, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT

In force

92 min

Issued by

NWS State College, PA

Area

Whole counties

County Adams County, PA

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WUUS51 KCTP 272137
SVRCTP
PAC001-272300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
528 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 522 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD
  TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LITTLESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GETTYSBURG AND LITTLESTOWN AT 600 PM.
  BONNEAUVILLE AT 610 PM.
  ARENDTSVILLE AT 615 PM.
  BIGLERVILLE AND MCSHERRYSTOWN AT 625 PM.
  BENDERSVILLE AND NEW OXFORD AT 635 PM.
  YORK SPRINGS AT 700 PM.

THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE OVER SOUTHERN ADAMS
COUNTY. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE AD?VANCE WARNING.

$$

FITZGERALD

NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 27, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
300 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000

POTENT SHRTWV/UPR CENTER OVER OH IS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS SEWD THIS
AFTN. NARROW BAND OF SHOWERS AND SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MAKING
ITS WAY ACROSS WRN PART OF OUR CWA ATTM. THE BAND IS MVNG INTO PLUME
OF HIGHER SFC DEWPOINTS OVER SCENTRAL PA...HELPING TSTMS TO CONTINUE
FOR THE TIME BEING. MOVEMENT AND COVERAGE OF THE SHWRS/TSTMS INTO
THIS EVENING WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN FCST PROBLEM. THUS WILL
DELAY ZONE ISSUANCE UNTIL JUST BEFORE 4PM.

GRADUAL CLEARING OF CLOUD COVER FROM NW TO SE EXPECTED TONIGHT WITH
WIDESPREAD FOG DEVELOPMENT ALSO EXPECTED WITH THE CLEARING LATE
TONIGHT WITH FOG HANGING AROUND THROUGH MON AM.

AS UPR LOW PROCEEDS TO VA AND LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ALONG THE
EASTER SEABOARD...EASTERLY FLOW WILL KEEP SOME CLOUDS OVER ERN CWA
MON MORN.

EXTENDED...
WARMING TREND SHAPIYNG UP IN THE EXTENDED AS UPR RIDGE BUILDS EAST
INTO THE MIDATLC. CHNC OF SHWR/TSTM WED INTO EARLY THUR FOR THE WEST
AS NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE NW.

.CTP...NONE.

GARTNER

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.