Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jan 14, 1992, 9:46 AM EST for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 1992, 9:46 AM EST (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 1992, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 456 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 579 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHAR 141452 TORHAR PAC071-141515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 946 AM EST TUE JAN 14 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HARRISBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...LANCASTER COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN HARRISBURG INDICATES A PROBABLE TORNADO MOVING INTO CENTRAL LANCASTER COUNTY FROM YORK COUNTY. AS THE STORMS APPROACH SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM...ACT NOW. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 7:17 AM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
PAZ006-009-013-141500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 715 AM EST TUE JAN 14 1992 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... AT 700AM EST WEATHER RADAR IN HARRISBURG WAS SHOWING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM CLEARFIELD COUNTY TO BEFORD COUNTY THEN INTO MINERAL COUNTY...WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL BEDFORD COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD THE HISTORY OF PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MPH. TAKE SHEyLTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. RODGERS
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 7:22 AM EST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PAZ007-008-014-141330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 722 AM EST THU JAN 2 1992 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 715 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...EXTENDING FROM NEAR DUBOIS SOUTH TO NEAR ALTOONA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF ALTOONA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT NEAR 55 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...PRODUCING PEA-SIZED HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE CURRENT SPEED AND MOTION OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BRING THEM INTO WESTERN CLINTON COUNTY AROUND 800 AM. ANY THUNDERSTORM CAN BE DANGEROUS...PRODUCING LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A STRONG BUILDING OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. JSN/HM
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 8:15 AM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PAZ007-008-014-141400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 815 AM EST TUE JAN 14 1992 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS APPROACHING NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 805 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...EXTENDING FROM NEAR RENOVO IN CLINTON COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH CENTRE COUNTY...THEN CONTINUED SOUTH INTO MARYLAND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CENTRE COUNTY. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT NEAR 55 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...PRODUCING BASEBALL-SIZED HAIL IN BEDFORD COUNTY...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. ANY THUNDERSTORM CAN BE DANGEROUS...PRODUCING LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A STRONG BUILDING OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. TG/HM
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 8:17 AM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PAZ006-009-013-141500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 815 AM EST TUE JAN 14 1992 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... AT 800AM EST WEATHER RADAR IN HARRISBURG WAS SHOWING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM STATE COLLEGE IN CENTER COUNTY SOUTH TO FULTON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE OVER EASTERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD THE HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS AS THEY MOVED ACROSS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST AT 45 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. AHNERT
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 8:19 AM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PAZ006-008-009-013-141500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA 815 AM EST TUE JAN 14 1992 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS... AT 800AM EST WEATHER RADAR IN HARRISBURG WAS SHOWING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM STATE COLLEGE IN CENTER COUNTY SOUTH TO FULTON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE OVER EASTERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD THE HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS AS THEY MOVED ACROSS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD2 THE EAST AT 45 MPH. TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. AHNERT
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 9:05 AM EST, 41 minutes before
PAZ007-008-014-141500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 905 AM EST TUE JAN 14 1992 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... AT 900 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...EXTENDING FROM NEAR WELLSBORO IN TIOGA COUNTY THROUGH CLINTON COUNTY...THEN CONTINUING SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL UNION AND SNYDER COUNTIES TO HARRISBURG AND INTO MARYLAND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL UNION AND SNYDER COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT NEAR 55 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN SEVERE AS THEY PASSED THROUGH SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...PRODUCING BASEBALL-SIZED HAIL IN BEDFORD COUNTY...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. ANY THUNDERSTORM CAN BE DANGEROUS...PRODUCING LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A STRONG BUILDING OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. TG/PG
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 8:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 64 min |
| Jan 14, 9:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, York | 56 min |
| Jan 14, 9:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 56 min |
| Jan 14, 9:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 67 min |
| Jan 14, 10:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 34 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.