Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2000, 4:27 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2000, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Lancaster County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:29 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Lancaster, PA | Large hail closed down roads in the Lancaster area. |
| May 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Millersville, PA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 11:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 786 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 102028 TORCTP PAC071-102115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 427 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY. * UNTIL 515 PM EDT. * AT 424 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER LANCASTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ROTHSVILLE AT 435 PM EDT. AKRON...LEACOCK-LEOLA-BAREVILLE AT 440 PM EDT. EPHRATA AT 445 PM EDT. NEW HOLLAND AT 450 PM EDT. DENVER...REAMSTOWN AT 455 PM EDT. GO TO A BASEMENT OR A} SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! .END/ GRUMM/ONDREJIK LAT...LON 4009 7642 3993 7631 4003 7596 4024 7612
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 57 min |
| May 10, 5:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 36 min |
| May 10, 10:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 51 min |
| May 10, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 64 min |
| May 10, 10:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 53 min |
| May 10, 11:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 65 min |
| May 10, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 58 min |
| May 10, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 62 min |
| May 10, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk | 49 min |
| May 10, 11:42 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 33 min |
| May 10, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 57 min |
| May 10, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 55 min |
| May 10, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clearfield | 46 min |
| May 10, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 56 min |
| May 10, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 62 min |
| May 10, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 58 min |
| May 10, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 65 min |
| May 10, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 71 min |
| May 10, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Perry | 62 min |
| May 10, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 70 min |
| May 10, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin | 66 min |
| May 10, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 57 min |
| May 10, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 65 min |
| May 10, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 45 min |
| May 10, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Northumberland | 62 min |
| May 10, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 63 min |
| May 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 58 min |
| May 10, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 60 min |
| May 10, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 39 min |
| May 10, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Northumberland | 68 min |
| May 10, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, York | 86 min |
| May 10, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 64 min |
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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.