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Tornado Warning 18, NWS State College, PA

June 2, 1998Union County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 5:01 PM EDT for Union County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1998, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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.

767 
WFUS01 KCTP 022100 RRA
TORCTP
PAC119-022200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
501 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  UNION COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 457 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
  12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIFFLINBURG OR IN THE VICINITY OF LAURELTON
  CENTER MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LAURELTON CENTER                BY 457 PM EDT
  PLEASANT GROVE                  BY 500 PM EDT
  SAND BRIDGE STATE PARK          BY 500 PM EDT
  FOREST HILL                     BY 515 PM EDT
  WEST MILTON                     BY 525 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME
OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

LAMBERT/DANGELO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPWarren66 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPDauphin, Northumberland64 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSnyder64 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSchuylkill93 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPMcKean, Warren95 min
Jun 2, 5:13 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPColumbia, Montour62 min
Jun 2, 5:25 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPCumberland, Dauphin, York45 min
Jun 2, 5:30 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSullivan60 min
Jun 2, 5:55 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPPotter75 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPClearfield, Elk75 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPAdams, Cumberland, York75 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLebanon33 min
Jun 2, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPDauphin, Northumberland, Schuylkill78 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPTioga91 min
Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSomerset88 min
Jun 2, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPClearfield64 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBlair, Cambria65 min
Jun 2, 7:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPCentre62 min
Jun 2, 7:27 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBedford78 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLancaster, York35 min
Jun 2, 7:33 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPPotter62 min
Jun 2, 7:36 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPTioga94 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPHuntingdon80 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPElk65 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.