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Tornado Warning 14, NWS State College, PA

August 19, 2001Elk County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2001, 3:55 PM EDT for Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 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 19, 2001, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Elk County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 19, 4:05 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Highland Corners, PA	A NWS storm survey team confirmed an F1 tornado touched down in Elk County. The tornado first touched down in Forest County, then crossed into Elk County. Damage was sporadic, with the initial touchdown in Elk county near the town of Highland. Sporadic dama

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
Aug 19, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 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.

234 
WFUS51 KCTP 191957
TORCTP
PAC047-192045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
355 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ELK COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT.

* AT 344 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST 
  OF KANE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  JAMES CITY AND JOHNSONBURG AT 410 PM.
  WILCOX AT 420 PM.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION FROM THE DAMAGING WINDS OF A TORNADO...GO TO A
BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR
BUSINESS.

$$

LAT...LON 4155 7916 4141 7907 4150 7862 4163 7847
          4163 7896

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	43 min
Aug 19, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair	36 min
Aug 19, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	31 min
Aug 19, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean	57 min
Aug 19, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	70 min
Aug 19, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Huntingdon	19 min
Aug 19, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	53 min
Aug 19, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Cambria	65 min
Aug 19, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton	46 min
Aug 19, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre	48 min
Aug 19, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming	55 min
Aug 19, 6:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Centre	3 hr
Aug 19, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Union	46 min
Aug 19, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	45 min
Aug 19, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Mifflin	24 min
Aug 19, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Union	60 min
Aug 19, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Montour, Northumberland	35 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.