Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 10:18 PM EDT for Mifflin County, Union County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 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 27, 2000, 10:18 PM EDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mifflin County, PA, Union County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 280220 SVRCTP PAC087-119-280300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1018 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... UNION COUNTY. MIFFLIN COUNTY. * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. * AT 1014 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF HARTLETON TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF MCVEYTOWN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BURNHAM AND HARTLETON AT 1025 PM. REEDSVILLE AND YEAGERTOWN AT 1030 PM. BELLEVILLE AND MILROY AT 1035 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. INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COV7ER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. $$ DANGELO
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 27, 9:55 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 9:55 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 955 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000 ...WORK ZONES OUT AS PHLADMCTP... UPPER LO SLOWLY SLIDING TO THE SOUTHEAST WITH SOUTHEASTERLY MOIST CONVEYOR OVER LOWER SUSQ VALL. WILL EXTEND FFA FOR THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO SLOWLY DISSIPATE LATE TONIGHT AS SYSTEM PUSHES SOUTHWARD THROUGH VIRGINIA. .CTP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT LOWER SUSQ VALLEY. FITZGERALD
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, York | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 93 min |
| Aug 27, 9:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 117 min |
| Aug 27, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Snyder | 40 min |
| Aug 27, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 58 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.