Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 3, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1997, 6:18 PM EDT for Juniata County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1997, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Juniata County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Reeds Gap, PA | A couple of trees were blown over on the mountain 2W of Reeds Gap. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 182217 RRA TORCTP PAC067-182300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 618 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...JUNIATA COUNTY AT 615 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF NOOK AND WILL BE OVER SOUTH OF MC COYSVILLE BEFORE 630 PM. RADAR SUGGESTS THAT THIS STORM COULD BE PRODUCING A TORNADO AT THIS TIME. 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 SHELTHER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. GRUMM
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield, Elk | 68 min |
| Jun 18, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 68 min |
| Jun 18, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 69 min |
| Jun 18, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean, Potter | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Franklin | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 7:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.