Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2001, 3:48 PM EDT for Blair 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 28, 2001, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Blair County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 598 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
547 WUUS51 KCTP 281949 SVRCTP PAC013-282030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 348 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLAIR COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 344 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SKI GAP...OR 4 MILES EAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DUNCANSVILLE AT 355 PM. HOLLIDAYSBURG AND ROARING SPRING AT 400 PM. CANOE CREEK SP AND BELLWOOD AT 405 PM. SINKING VALLEY AND TYRONE AT 410 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW $$ ROGOWSKI/LA CORTE LAT...LON 4039 7856 4027 7861 4033 7829 4073 7824 &
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 28, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 155 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 ...WORK ZONES BY 330 PM... ...ZONES BY 345 PM... ...CHANGES... CURRENT FCST NOT BAD. WILL PUT CHC IN FOR TUE. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... FRONT PUSHING SE AS EXPECTED. WITH BEST SUPPORT TO THE NORTH...ONLY A FEW STRONG STORMS SO FAR...WITH ONE REPORT OF TREE ON WIRE. LOOKING MORE ACTIVE TO THE WEST NOW. WED LOOKS LIKE A GREAT LATE SUMMER DAY. THU NOT BAD EITHER...JUST A LITTLE WARMER. ...LONG TERM... SOME SHOWERS AND STORMS FROM AT LEAST LATE FRIDAY INTO EARLY SAT. AS IN MOST CASES OF LATELY...BEST DYNAMICS LIFT NE...AND MRF BACKS OFF SOME ON PUSH OF COLDER AIR. MUCH OF HOLIDAY WEEKEND MAY TURN OUT NOT BAD. WARM ADVECTION FOR TUE...AS WE GO BACK INTO A WARM PATTERN. WILL PUT CHC IN FOR TUE. ...OTHER... SPS...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...ISSUED FOR SLIGHT RISK...N SECTIONS OF CWA. .CTP...NONE. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 11:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017-018-037-041-042-045-046-049>053-058-282145- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1105 AM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 ..THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. BANDS OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY THIS AFTERNOON...AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AND SOUTH. WHILE STORMS ACROSS THE FAR NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES WILL END BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON...STORMS WILL LINGER NEAR THE INTERSTATE 80 CORRIDOR INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON...EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS FROM THE WEST. SOME STORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL END BY EARLY EVENING AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES EAST OF THE REGION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS...AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 11:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 67 min |
| Aug 28, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 78 min |
| Aug 28, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 53 min |
| Aug 28, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland | 69 min |
| Aug 28, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 73 min |
| Aug 28, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 65 min |
| Aug 28, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 60 min |
| Aug 28, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 47 min |
| Aug 28, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 26 min |
| Aug 28, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.