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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2002, 8:11 PM EDT for Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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 12, 2002, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2002, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mifflin County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 12, 1:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 1:35 PM EDT, 6 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 135 PM EDT MON AUG 12 2002 ...WORK ZONES OUT BY 330 PM... ...ZONES BY 4 PM... CURRENT FCST NOT BAD...MAINLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. ...DISC... ...SHORT TERM... WEAK DISTURBANCE FROM THE OHIO VALLEY WILL BRING CHC OF SHOWERS AND STORMS TO THE THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. A FEW THE SHOWERS MIGHT PERSIST AS LATE AS EARLY TUE AM...MAINLY ALONG THE NY BORDER. WIND SHEAR NOT VERY GOOD...THUS SEVERE NOT LIKELY. ESTIMATED VIL WOULD BE MID 50S. REAL DRY OUT...HYDRO NOT A CONCERN...AS THINGS WILL MOVE...BUT SLOWLY. BEST CHC OF SEEING RAIN WILL BE N AND W SECTIONS. JUST BELOW HEAT ADVISORY FOR SUSQ VLY NEXT FEW DAYS. ...LONG TERM... BEST CHC FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS STILL LOOKS TO BE THU...AS WEAKENING FRONT NEARS. SHOWERS MIGHT LINGER NOW INTO THU NIGHT. WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE SAT THROUGH MONDAY PERIOD. MID AND LONG RANGE SOLUTIONS SHOWING SOME VARIATION EACH DAY...SO WILL HAVE TO SEE WHAT NCEP BRINGS TO LIGHT. .CTP...NONE. MARTIN
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.