Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2001, 3:26 PM EDT for Clinton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 10, 2001, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:34 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Renovo, PA | Trees were reported down in Renovo. |
| Jul 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Lamar, PA | An F0 tornado touched down briefly near Lamar. The path length was 100 yards and the width 20-50 yards. The tornado downed some trees on Mountain Road. It lifted less than a minute after touchdown. No injuries or fatalities were reported. |
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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
203 WFUS51 KCTP 101926 TORCTP PAC035-102000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 326 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLINTON COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT. * AT 318 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR RENOVO...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOCK HAVEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HYNER AT 330 PM. GLEN UNION AT 345 PM. LOCK HAVEN AND DUNNSTOWN AND MILL HALL AT 400 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. 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. $$ LAMBERT/GRUMM LAT...LON 4146 7770 4134 7787 4100 7747 4116 7726
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 36 min |
| Jul 10, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 79 min |
| Jul 10, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, York | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 43 min |
| Jul 10, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Franklin | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 39 min |
| Jul 10, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 67 min |
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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.