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Tornado Warning 13, NWS State College, PA

June 25, 2000Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 8:02 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 28 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 25, 2000, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Lancaster County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 25, 8:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Lititz, PA	Trees 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 25, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

407 
WFUS51 KCTP 260002
TORCTP
PAC071-260030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
802 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LANCASTER COUNTY.

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT.

* AT 757 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EAST PETERSBURG...
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ROTHSVILLE AT 815 PM.
  AKRON AT 820 PM.
  EPHRATA AND LEACOCK-LEOLA-BAREVILLE AT 825 PM.
  NEW HOLLAND AND PARADISE AT 830 PM.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

ONDREJIK/GARTNER

LAT...LON 4022 7643 4004 7645 3998 7604 4021 7601

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 8:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lancaster	31 min
Jun 25, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	40 min
Jun 25, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	57 min
Jun 25, 9:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lancaster	25 min
Jun 25, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	60 min
Jun 25, 9:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Tioga	3 hr
Jun 25, 10:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Lancaster, Lebanon	4 hr
Jun 25, 11:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	York	2 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.