Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 5, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1997, 5:41 PM EDT for Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 8, 1997, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tioga County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Tioga, PA | 41/53/50N, 77/16/47W to 41/54N, 77/07/37W. The Elkhorn Creek tornado touched down in Tioga County around 6:00 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 8th, about 8 miles west of the town of Tioga, just southwest of Elbridge. The storm tracked east following Elkhorn Creek for |
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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
195 WFUS01 KCTP 082142 RRA TORCTP PAC117-082245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 541 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...TIOGA COUNTY AT 540 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM NEAR WESTFIELD IN NORTHWEST TIOGA COUNTY. INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE SOUTH OF JACKSON SUMMIT BY 630 PM. 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. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 76 min |
| Jul 8, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Tioga | 43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.