Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 46, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 9:10 PM EDT for Huntingdon County, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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, 9:10 PM EDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 9:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Huntingdon 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 030110 RRA TORCTP PAC061-087-030155- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 910 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA MIFFLIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 955 PM EDT * AT 907 PM EDT... STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 24 MILES WEST OF LEWISTOWN OR 1 MILE NORTH OF PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM THAT THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN WAS MOVING DIRECTLY ALONG TUSSEY RIDGE. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE BY 908 PM EDT MCALVEYS FORT BY 925 PM EDT MILROY BY 945 PM EDT LEWISTOWN BY 945 PM EDT ABANDON MOBILE HOMES! GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR .HEAD. PEOPLE IN THE ABOVE LOCATIONS ARE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO AND SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A STORM CELLAR...A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE. 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, 9:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Montour, Northumberland | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.