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Tornado Warning 3, NWS State College, PA

June 22, 2001Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2001, 5:23 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 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 22, 2001, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Lancaster County, PA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 5:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	White Horse, PA	Trees were reported down in White Horse.
Jun 22, 5:35 PM EDT	Tornado F0	White Horse, PA	An F0 tornado touched down in the town of White Haven at 17:35. The tornado's damage was confined to trees and a cornfield.

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 22, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KCTP 222123
TORCTP
PAC071-222200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
523 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LANCASTER COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

* AT 517 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR GAP...OR 11
  MILES SOUTH OF NEW HOLLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

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

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

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

$$

LAT...LON 4001 7615 3988 7598 4024 7543 4043 7567

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clinton	63 min
Jun 21, 10:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Franklin	3 hr
Jun 21, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Elk	58 min
Jun 21, 10:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	71 min
Jun 21, 10:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Clearfield	4 hr
Jun 21, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean	58 min
Jun 21, 10:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Warren	113 min
Jun 21, 11:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron	65 min
Jun 22, 1:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Franklin	66 min
Jun 22, 2:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Northumberland	114 min
Jun 22, 3:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Montour	36 min
Jun 22, 11:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	60 min
Jun 22, 1:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	York	3 hr
Jun 22, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	25 min
Jun 22, 4:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Dauphin, York	3 hr
Jun 22, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	49 min
Jun 22, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	27 min
Jun 22, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Huntingdon	64 min
Jun 22, 5:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lancaster	33 min
Jun 22, 6:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Lancaster	3 hr
Jun 22, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	York	6 hr

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.