Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 49, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1998, 6:42 PM EDT for Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 48 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 16, 1998, 6:42 PM EDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Benton, 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 nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 162242 RRA TORCTP PAC037-162330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 642 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 640 PM EDT...STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONGLY ROTATING THUNDERSTORM...CONTAINING A POSSIBLE TORNADO...13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAPORTE OR 7 MILES WEST OF TALMAR MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE POSSIBLE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TALMAR AT 705 PM EDT DERRS AT 710 PM EDT CENTRAL AT 720 PM EDT GRASSMERE AT 720 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! OSTUNO/LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Clearfield | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 72 min |
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 72 min |
| Jun 16, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Perry | 79 min |
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Mifflin | 79 min |
| Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata | 79 min |
| Jun 16, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 77 min |
| Jun 16, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder, Union | 77 min |
| Jun 16, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 77 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.