Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2006, 9:13 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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 25, 2006, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2006, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Warren County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 25, 2:57 PM EDT, 6 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:57 PM EDT, 6 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:33 AM EDT, 16 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 433 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 PAZ004>006-010>012-037-041-042-046-051-053-260845- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-TIOGA- NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-MONTOUR-COLUMBIA- 433 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA INDICATES THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. STRONG WIND GUSTS...LARGE HAIL AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PAZ017>019-024>028-033>036-045-049-050-052-056>059-063>066-260845- CLEARFIELD-NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR- HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN- SOUTHERN CLINTON-UNION-SNYDER-NORTHUMBERLAND-PERRY-DAUPHIN- SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 433 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. DANGELO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 8:46 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 846 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 PAZ063>065-260215- ADAMS-CUMBERLAND-YORK- 846 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ADAMS...CUMBERLAND AND YORK COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 PM EDT... AT 838 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF SHIPPENSBURG TO 11 MILES EAST OF SHIPPENSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR BIGLERVILLE...BENDERSVILLE AROUND 845 PM...WALNUT BOTTOM...PINE GROVE FURNACE STATE AROUND 900 PM...MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS...YORK SPRINGS AROUND 915 PM...EAST BERLIN...ABBOTTSTOWN AROUND 930 PM...FRANKLINTOWN AND DILLSBURG AROUND 945 PM. THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INTERSTATES... I-81 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 30 AND 38...I-83 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 11 AND 22. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 15...ROUTE 30. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO...EXPECT OCCASIONAL DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. FORECASTER: LAMBERT
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 9:00 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 900 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 PAZ004-005-260300- MCKEAN-WARREN- 900 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND AFFECT NORTHERN PORTIONS OF MCKEAN AND WARREN COUNTIES THROUGH 11 PM EDT... AT 854 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JAMESTOWN...WEST TO WATTSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR BEAR LAKE AROUND 930 PM...SUGAR GROVE AROUND 945 PM...LOTTSVILLE AROUND 1015 PM...RUSSELL...GERMANY AROUND 1030 PM AND YOUNGSVILLE AROUND 1045 PM...WARREN AROUND 11 PM. THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6...ROUTE 62...STATE ROAD 59. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL AROUND ONE HALF OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO...EXPECT FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. FORECASTER: LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Warren | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 87 min |
| Aug 25, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 10:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Tioga | 74 min |
| Aug 25, 10:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | McKean | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.