Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 17, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 1:53 PM EDT for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 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 12, 2004, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Schuylkill County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 121753 TORCTP PAC107-121845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 153 PM EDT THU AUG 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SCHUYLKILL COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 150 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR TREMONT...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINERSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JOE ZERBEY AIRPORT AROUND 205 PM EDT... MINERSVILLE AROUND 210 PM EDT... POTTSVILLE AROUND 215 PM EDT... ST. CLAIR AND PORT CARBON AND GIRARDVILLE AROUND 220 PM EDT... FRACKVILLE AND NEW PHILADELPHIA AROUND 225 PM EDT... LOCUST LAKE STATE PARK AND SHENANDOAH AROUND 230 PM EDT... 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 4060 7654 4050 7637 4082 7589 4093 7617 $$ JUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 65 min |
| Aug 12, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.