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Tornado Warning 7, NWS State College, PA

June 27, 1994Sullivan County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:35 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Sullivan County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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 1994-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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 1994-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 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 KIPT 271835
TORIPT
PAC113-271900-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA
235 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY
 
AT 234 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO IN NORTHEAST SULLIVAN COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS LOCATED ABOUT
5 MILES SOUTH OF COLLEY.  THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
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 FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
NEMETH/HW
&
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSullivan42 min
Jun 27, 2:57 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBradford33 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.