Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 52, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1998, 4:49 PM EDT for Fulton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 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 23, 1998, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fulton County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
463 WFUS01 KCTP 232051 RRA TORCTP PAC057-232150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 449 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 550 PM EDT * AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO APPROACHING BARNES GAP...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO TRACK... JUST NORTH OF THE PENNSYLVANIA-MARYLAND BORDER WEST OF WARFORDSBURG THROUGH 510 PM EDT... GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR LA CORTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 3:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Tioga | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 61 min |
| Jun 23, 5:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Potter | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 6:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Tioga | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.