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Tornado Warning 21, NWS State College, PA

August 16, 2000Cameron County, Elk County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 2000, 12:23 AM EDT for Cameron County, Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 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: Aug 16, 2000, 12:23 AM EDT (04:23 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cameron County, PA, Elk 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
Aug 15, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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

561 
WFUS51 KCTP 160423
TORCTP
PAC023-047-160500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1223 AM EDT WED AUG 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELK COUNTY.
  CAMERON COUNTY.

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT.

* AT 1213 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF EMPORIUM...OR 10 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF JOHNSONBURG...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EMPORIUM AT 1235 AM.
  DRIFTWOOD AT 1250 AM.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS NOW

$$
MSE/DJO
LAT...LON 4166 7849 4149 7856 4131 7811 4156 7817

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	62 min
Aug 15, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean	53 min
Aug 15, 11:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk	64 min
Aug 16, 12:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Elk	59 min
Aug 16, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton	55 min
Aug 16, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron	35 min
Aug 16, 2:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Northumberland, Schuylkill	54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.