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Tornado Warning 8, NWS State College, PA

June 27, 1994Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:57 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1994, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Bradford County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 271857
TORIPT
PAC015-271930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA
257 PM EDT MON JUN 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN BRADFORD COUNTY
 
AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO ENTERING BRADFORD COUNTY ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLENBACK. THE
TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. COMMUNTIES IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE...HOLLENBACK...SUGAR RUN AND SILVARA.
 
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.
 
 
NEMETH/H.W
&
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, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSullivan25 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.