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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 13, 1994McKean County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1994, 6:35 PM EDT for McKean County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1994, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1994, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH
Area
Whole counties

County McKean County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KERI 132243
TORERI
PAC083-132315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ERIE PA
635 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ERIE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...MCKEAN COUNTY
 
AT 633 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR IN STATE COLLEGE INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO OVER NORTHERN MCKEAN COUNTY HEADING EAST SOUTHEAST TOWARD
BRADFORD AND ELDRED.
 
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOORv.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 1:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie63 min
Jun 13, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie67 min
Jun 13, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEPotter29 min
Jun 13, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie57 min
Jun 13, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie59 min
Jun 13, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford60 min
Jun 13, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford, Warren60 min
Jun 13, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEMcKean68 min

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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.