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Tornado Warning 13, NWS State College, PA

July 10, 1995Bedford County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1995, 5:27 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1995, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Bedford County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 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 KCTP 102130
TORCTP
PAC009-102200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
527 PM EDT MON JUL 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM EDT THE WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN STATE COLLEGE SHOWED
A POTENTIAL TORNADO IN A THUNDERSTORM NORTHE6AST OF BEDFORD. THIS STORM
IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH TO NEAR BREEZEWOOD BY 6 PM.
 
 
FOOSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPBedford51 min
Jul 10, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon63 min
Jul 10, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPFulton63 min
Jul 10, 6:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPHuntingdon115 min
Jul 10, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPJuniata60 min
Jul 10, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPSnyder56 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.