Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2001, 5:12 PM EDT for Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2001, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mifflin County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kistler, PA | Trees reported down in Kistler. |
| Jun 12, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Kistler, PA | Trees were down in Kistler. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 122114 RRA SVRCTP PAC087-122145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 512 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MIFFLIN COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 502 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF BELLEVILLE...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWISTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... YEAGERTOWN AT 520 PM. HIGHLAND PARK AND BURNHAM AT 525 PM. LEWISTOWN AT 530 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FoROM WINDOWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS 58 MPH OR STRONGER OR HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR LARGER. $$
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 Jun 12, 2:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 253 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 WORK ZONES OUT SOON.... CURRENT FORECAST ON TRACK AS EASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE IS UNDER MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND CLOUDS DISSIPATING OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS. SMALL AREA OF PRECIP THAT MOVED INTO THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF PA HAS ALSO DISSIPATED OVER PA...BUT SMALL AREA STILL MOVING OVER SOUTHERN NEW YORK. WEAK FRONT OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE...WITH SMALL WAVE PUSHING THROUGH STATE TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SPARKED ALREADY THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. ACTIVITY IS MAINLY OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CWA. MODELS IN SIMILAR AGREEMENT OVER THE NEXT 36 HRS WITH TRACKING OF TROPICAL REMAINS UP THE EAST COAST. OTHER THEN A POSSIBLE WEAK SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM TOMORROW...RATHER BENIGN WEATHER UNTIL THE EAST COAST SYSTEM APPROACHES PA LATER IN THE WEEK. STILL TOO EARLY TO NAIL DOWN TRACK OF THIS SLOW MOVING SYSTEM...HOWEVER GOOD BET THAT WE WILL GET SOME RAIN FROM IT...AND IN INCREASE IN HUMIDITY. .CTP...NONE. ONDREJIK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 3:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PAZ010>012-017>019-024>028-034>036-045-049-050-052-056>059-063>066- 130100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 341 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... LEBANON...NORTHUMBERLAND...UNION...JUNIATA...CENTRE...CLINTON...PERRY ...FRANKLIN...BEDFORD...DAUPHIN...LANCASTER...CUMBERLAND...ADAMS...CAMERON ...BLAIR...CAMBRIA...SCHUYLKILL...YORK...SNYDER...CLEARFIELD... ELK...HUNTINGDON...MIFFLIN AND FULTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE...AND OR HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. GARTNER/ONDREJIK/GRUMM
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 5:00 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PAZ033-130100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 500 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... SOMERSET. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE...AND OR HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR EL`ECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. GARTNER/ONDREJIK/GRUMM
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 69 min |
| Jun 12, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 74 min |
| Jun 12, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Perry | 69 min |
| Jun 12, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 76 min |
| Jun 12, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Union | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.