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Tornado Warning 37, NWS State College, PA

June 2, 1998Tioga County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 7:36 PM EDT for Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 94 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, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1998, 9:10 PM EDT
In force: 94 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Tioga County, PA

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 2, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1267 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 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.

831 
WFUS01 KCTP 022335 RRA
TORCTP
PAC117-030110-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TIOGA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 910 PM EDT

* AT 734 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
  33 MILES NORTHWEST OF WELLSBORO OR 13 MILES WEST OF BROOKFIELD
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BROOKFIELD                      BY 745 PM EDT
  WESTFIELD                       BY 755 PM EDT
  SABINSVILLE                     BY 755 PM EDT
  KNOXVILLE                       BY 800 PM EDT
  WELLSBORO                       BY 805 PM EDT
  ELKLAND                         BY 810 PM EDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

MSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	66 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Northumberland	64 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Snyder	64 min
Jun 2, 5:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Union	59 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Schuylkill	93 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	McKean, Warren	95 min
Jun 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Columbia, Montour	62 min
Jun 2, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Dauphin, York	45 min
Jun 2, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Sullivan	60 min
Jun 2, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Potter	75 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Clearfield, Elk	75 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, York	75 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lebanon	33 min
Jun 2, 6:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Northumberland, Schuylkill	78 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Tioga	91 min
Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Somerset	88 min
Jun 2, 7:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Clearfield	64 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Blair, Cambria	65 min
Jun 2, 7:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Centre	62 min
Jun 2, 7:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Bedford	78 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lancaster, York	35 min
Jun 2, 7:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Potter	62 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Huntingdon	80 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Elk	65 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.