Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 2004, 2:49 PM EDT for Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 4, 2004, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clearfield County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 041849 TORCTP PAC033-041915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 247 PM EDT WED AUG 4 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLEARFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 242 PM EDT...A CITIZEN REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR TREASURE LAKE... OR 6 MILES EAST OF DUBOIS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PENFIELD AROUND 250 PM EDT... S.B. ELLIOT STATE PARK AROUND 300 PM EDT... PARKER DAM STATE PARK AROUND 305 PM EDT... THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM. MOST RECENTLY IN SEBULA. 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. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772. LAT...LON 4124 7873 4106 7873 4105 7826 4127 7826 RG $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 75 min |
| Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Perry | 55 min |
| Aug 4, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Snyder, Union | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 36 min |
| Aug 4, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Perry | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 71 min |
| Aug 4, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Northumberland | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 6:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | York | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 73 min |
| Aug 4, 6:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | York | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.