Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 15, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 9:05 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 25 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 25, 2000, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster 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 25, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 260106 TORCTP PAC071-260130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 905 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY. * UNTIL 930 PM EDT. * AT 903 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER MOUNTVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF MILLERSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MILLERSVILLE AT 915 PM. LANCASTER AT 920 PM. PARADISE AND QUARRYVILLE AT 930 PM. SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ON ROUTE 30 IN COLUMBIA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ GARTNER/ONDREJIK LAT...LON 4014 7646 3998 7657 3981 7619 4001 7606
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 25, 12:50 PM EDT, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 12:50 PM EDT, 8 hours 15 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1250 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THINGS STARTING TO GO ALONG ALLEGHENY FRONT ATTM...AND SPC HAS ALREADY STARTED WATCHING CLOSER AS SWOMCD CAME OUT NOT SO LONG AGO. XPCT WW SOON. WL TRY TO GET THINGS SQUARED AWAY B4 THAT HAPPENS AND JUST LET NEW ZONE PKG FLY IF ONE IS TO BE ISSUED. LLJ WINDS NOW REFLECTED IN SFC WINDS AT MANY OB SITES AS FRONT ADVANCES SE. 16Z OBS WUD PLACE FNTL BNDRY OV ERI CO AND CLOSE TO WARREN CO. WL TRY TO PLAY SOME CLEARING AND THEN PATCHY FOG FOR THE NW AFTER A /THIS EVENING/ PD - MAINLY FOR SHRA/TSRA. FAR SE WL BE CLDY TONIGHT...BUT CURRENT CLR SKIES MAY WARRANT AN EVE PD AS WELL TO MAKE THINGS A BIT SMOOTHER. WL LEAVE SOME CHC POPS IN FOR MON IN SRN ZNS AS FRONT LAYS OUT W-E AND DISSIPATES...BUT WL STILL HV POTENTIAL FOR SHRA WITH IT - ESP IN AFTN AS COASTAL SYSTEM WL SLOW THINGS UP. WL GO HI CHC FOR ERN/SRN ZNS FOR MON AND LEAVE OUT TIMING. NRN/WRN ZNS MAY STAY DRY ON MON BUT WL THINK ABT LEAVING A 30 POP UP THERE. MON NIGHT HAS NEW FRONT APPCH AS POTENT NRN ROCKIES SYSTEM WILL CHARGE THRU UPR MIDWEST AND INTO OH VLY BY NIGHTFALL. WL HV LIKELIES UP FOR NW AND TAPER TO LOW CHC FOR SE. TUE IS JUST THE OPPOSITE AS TIMING LOOKING LIKE THINGS MAY GET THRU NW IN THE MORNING...AND FIRE UP MORE FOR LWR SUSQ. MOS MAY BE A BIT TOO WARM FOR THE SE ON MON AND WL TRIM A CAT OR SO OFF MAXES. W/LTL CHG IN DWPTS TONIGHT AND DECENT CLD CVR WL GO WARMER THAN MOS ON MINS. XTNDD: WED LOOKING MORE DRY THAN EARLIER THOUGHT. WL JUST GO PC/MC AND LEAVE CHC TSRA/SHRA IN FOR THUR AND FRI. COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS LOOKING LIKE A GOOD BET AS MRF DEEPER W/UPR TROF AND COOLER W/8H TEMPS ON THR AND FRI. WITH FRONT JUST TO THE SOUTH AND LITTLE WAVES RIDING ALONG IT...WL HV POTENTIAL FOR SHRA/TSRA THUR AND FRI SEES A STRONGER S/W ROLLING IN FM MIDWEST. .CTP...NONE. DANGELO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 3:15 PM EDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
PAZ026>028-035-036-041-042-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-260000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 315 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ADAMS... COLUMBIA... CUMBERLAND... DAUPHIN... FRANKLIN... FULTON... HUNTINGDON... JUNIATA... LANCASTER... LEBANON... LYCOMING... MIFFLIN... MONTOUR... NORTHUMBERLAND... PERRY... SCHUYLKILL... SNYDER... SULLIVAN... UNION... AND YORK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. ADDITIONALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. ONDREJIK
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:06 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
PAZ036-051>053-056>059-063>066-260300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 806 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNTIL 11 PM EDT. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...ADAMS... COLUMBIA... CUMBERLAND... DAUPHIN... FRANKLIN... LANCASTER... LEBANON... NORTHUMBERLAND... PERRY... SCHUYLKILL... AND YORK SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH. ADDITIONALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. ONDREJIK
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 28 min |
| 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, 9:30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.