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Tornado Warning 16, NWS State College, PA

June 29, 2000Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 2000, 12:51 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 39 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 29, 2000, 12:51 PM EDT (16:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Dauphin County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2000-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 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.

000 
WFUS51 KCTP 291652
TORCTP
PAC043-291730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1251 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DAUPHIN COUNTY.

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT.

* AT 1241 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF
  ELIZABETHVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF LINGLESTOWN...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LINGLESTOWN AND SKYLINE VIEW AT 130 PM.

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

$$

LAT...LON 4062 7686 4055 7698 4031 7679 4031 7665
          4050 7669

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 1:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams53 min
Jun 29, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPAdams, York38 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.