Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 5, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1995, 5:37 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania; Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1995, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Warren County, NJ, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 292137 RRA TORPHL NJC041-PAC089-292215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 537 PM EDT MON MAY 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NEW JERSEY ...WESTERN WARREN COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA ...EASTERN MONROE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN MONROE COUNTY. IT WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF STROUDSBURG AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THE CURRENT MOTION THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD MOVE CLOSE TO COLUMBIA AND BLAIRSTOWN IN WARREN COUNTY NEW JERSEY BY 615 PM. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN THIS TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED ABOUT BY TORNADO WINDS. LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT...BUT BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOOD WATERS FROM THE HEAVY RAINS. TG
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 61 min |
| May 29, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Union | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Perry | 66 min |
| May 29, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 56 min |
| May 29, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 50 min |
| May 29, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 53 min |
| May 29, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 65 min |
| May 29, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Berks | 48 min |
| May 29, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 63 min |
| May 29, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lehigh | 38 min |
| May 29, 4:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 66 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Monroe | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 44 min |
| May 29, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.