Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 45, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 9:04 PM EDT for Montour County, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 9:04 PM EDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 10:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:40 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Shamokin, PA |
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 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 030104 RRA TORCTP PAC093-097-030205- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 904 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MONTOUR COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 1005 PM EDT * AT 901 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF MILTON OR 7 MILES WEST OF WATSONTOWN MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MILTON BY 915 PM EDT OTTAWA BY 930 PM EDT WHITE HALL BY 935 PM EDT DANVILLE BY 940 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! 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. DANGELO/ EVANS
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cameron | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 75 min |
| Jun 2, 8:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Somerset | 92 min |
| Jun 2, 8:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Centre | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 8:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Union | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 9:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Huntingdon, Mifflin | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 9:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Snyder | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 75 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.