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Tornado Warning 41, NWS State College, PA

June 2, 1998Juniata County, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT for Juniata County, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 75 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, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 9:25 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Juniata County, PA, Mifflin 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, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1513 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 229 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
1513 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
416 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.2
Supercell composite
11.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCTP 030008 RRA
TORCTP
PAC067-087-030125-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MIFFLIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
  JUNIATA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 925 PM EDT

* AT 806 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
  31 MILES WEST OF LEWISTOWN OR 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCVEYTOWN
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED IN TYRONE
  AROUND 8 PM.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MCVEYTOWN                       BY 845 PM EDT
  LEWISTOWN                       BY 845 PM EDT
  MIFF^LIN                         BY 900 PM EDT
  PORT ROYAL                      BY 900 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPCameron63 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.