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Tornado Warning 40, NWS State College, PA

June 2, 1998Cameron County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 8:02 PM EDT for Cameron County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 9:05 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Cameron County, PA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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.

000 
TTAA00 KCTP 030002 RRA
TORCTP
PAC023-030105-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CAMERON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 905 PM EDT

* AT 800 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
  19 MILES WEST OF EMPORIUM OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEECHWOOD
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ELK RIVER                       BY 815 PM EDT
  EMPORIUM                        BY 830 PM EDT
  CAMERON                         BY 830 PM EDT
  DRIFTWOOD                       BY 830 PM EDT

GO TO THE BASEDMENT 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 8:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPJuniata, Mifflin75 min
Jun 2, 8:13 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSomerset92 min
Jun 2, 8:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPCentre63 min
Jun 2, 8:57 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPUnion48 min
Jun 2, 9:04 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPMontour, Northumberland61 min
Jun 2, 9:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPHuntingdon, Mifflin45 min
Jun 2, 9:12 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSnyder33 min
Jun 2, 9:25 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPColumbia, Schuylkill75 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.