Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 20, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 1, 2000, 4:44 PM EDT for Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 1, 2000, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sullivan County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Sonestown, PA | Dime size hail fell in Sonestown. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 765 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 012044 TORCTP PAC113-012115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 444 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SULLIVAN COUNTY. * UNTIL 515 PM EDT. * AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER LAPORTE...OR 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTOURSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF... NORTHEASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY. EXTREME NORTHEASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY. SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE FOLLOWING A FUNNEL CLOUD AT LAST REPORT. ALTHOUGH THE STORM APPEARS TO BE WEAKENING...THE FUNNEL COULD STILL TOUCHDOWN AND CAUSE DAMAGE. SEEK SHELTER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS NOW! $$ ONDREJIK LAT...LON 4147 7661 4129 7657 4135 7621 4154 7623
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder | 55 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.