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Tornado Warning 6, NWS State College, PA

June 2, 2000McKean County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2000, 12:44 PM EDT for McKean County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr. 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: Jun 2, 2000, 12:44 PM EDT (16:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County McKean County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 1:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ludlow, PA	Trees down.

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
Jun 2, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCTP 021644
TORCTP
PAC083-021745-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1244 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MCKEAN COUNTY.

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT.

* AT 1243 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  KANE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WARREN...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KANE AT 110 PM EDT.
  BRADFORD...LEWIS RUN AT 120 PM EDT.
  
GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

.END/

LAT...LON 4198 7+891 4164 7894 4163 7823 4198 7824

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 11:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	66 min
Jun 2, 12:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Warren	54 min
Jun 2, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	53 min
Jun 2, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter	51 min
Jun 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk	62 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean	47 min
Jun 2, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron	65 min
Jun 2, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter	61 min
Jun 2, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	53 min
Jun 2, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton	75 min
Jun 2, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Tioga	65 min
Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming	92 min
Jun 2, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	95 min
Jun 2, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	62 min
Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Sullivan	56 min
Jun 2, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cambria	66 min
Jun 2, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Northumberland, Snyder, Union	56 min
Jun 2, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Montour	56 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair	67 min
Jun 2, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin	55 min
Jun 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Somerset	77 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	58 min
Jun 2, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill	95 min
Jun 2, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Perry	95 min
Jun 2, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland, Franklin	88 min
Jun 2, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Fulton	88 min
Jun 2, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	47 min
Jun 2, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster, York	38 min
Jun 2, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Adams	48 min
Jun 2, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	63 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.