Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 6, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 2003, 3:50 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2003, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dauphin County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1049 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
888 WFUS51 KCTP 221950 TORCTP PAC043-222030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 349 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAUPHIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 345 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST NORTH OF DAUPHIN...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LINGLESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELLENDALE FORGE AROUND 355 PM. ELIZABETHVILLE AROUND 400 PM. DEHART DAM AROUND 405 PM. LYKENS AROUND 410 PM. PENN NATIONAL RACEWAY AROUND 415 PM. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 4056 7705 4038 7704 4038 7667 4057 7657 DANGELO $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 62 min |
| Jul 21, 8:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 9:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | McKean | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 11:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 53 min |
| Jul 22, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 57 min |
| Jul 22, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 66 min |
| Jul 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 17 min |
| Jul 22, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 69 min |
| Jul 22, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 91 min |
| Jul 22, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.