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Tornado Warning 8, NWS State College, PA

June 16, 2000Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports 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 16, 2000, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Lycoming County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 5:37 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Montoursville, PA	Power lines down.
Jun 16, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Farragut, PA	This tornado produced an intermittent path of damage along a 16 mile path beginning in Farragut north of Montoursville, moving east across sparcely populated sections of eastern Lycoming County, crossing into Sullivan County about 2 miles north of Glen Mawr be

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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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.

981 
WFUS51 KCTP 162136
TORCTP
PAC081-162200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
537 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL LYCOMING COUNTY.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

* AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PICTURE
  ROCKS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTOURSVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PICTURE ROCKS AT 545 PM.

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

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Fulton	57 min
Jun 16, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	65 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	63 min
Jun 16, 5:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	38 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lycoming	35 min
Jun 16, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Sullivan	29 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.