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Tornado Warning 12, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1994, 8:13 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1994, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1994, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 842 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 260013 TORCTP PAC041-043-260115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 813 PM EDT THU AUG 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...EASTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY...WESTERN DAUPHIN COUNTY AT 810 PM EDT THE STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A ROTATING THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN PERRY COUNTY SOUTH OF NEWPORT. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND COULD CONTAIN A TORNADO. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE HARRISBURG....CAMP HILL AREA AFTER 830 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A B(ASEMENT. 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 FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Aug 25, 3:46 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042- 045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NOWCAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 340 PM EDT THU AUG 25 1994 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON... STORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND POSSIBLE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL...WERE OVER WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA...JUST WEST OF DUBOIS ...AND 20 MILES NORTH OF WILLIAMSPORT AT 330 PM. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE JUST EAST OF WILLIAMSPORT AND PHILIPSBURG BY 5 PM. OTHER STORMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF ERIE...AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHWEST WARREN COUNTY BY 430 PM. THESE STOHRMS MAY HAVE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER OCCURS...SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Perry | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Union | 4 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 9:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 4 hr |
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.