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Tornado Warning 12, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2000, 6:46 PM EDT for Perry County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 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 21, 2000, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 21, 7:21 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Newport, PA | Trees and wires down. |
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 21, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 212247 TORCTP PAC099-212315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 646 PM EDT WED JUN 21 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY. * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 644 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE 12 MILES WEST OF MILLERSTOWN...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEWISTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MILLERSTOWN AND NEWPORT AT 705 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ G LAT...LON 4057 7719 4046 7738 4046 7704 4056 7700 LA CORTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 54 min |
| Jun 21, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 77 min |
| Jun 21, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 24 min |
| Jun 21, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Montour | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Snyder | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 62 min |
| Jun 21, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Juniata | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 76 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 76 min |
| Jun 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 76 min |
| Jun 21, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 72 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.