Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2004, 2:59 PM EDT for Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2004, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 6 Se Palmyra, PA | MANY HOUSES DAMAGED EAST AND ALONG ROUTE 322 |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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 141859 TORCTP PAC075-141945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 259 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEBANON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR CAMPBELLTOWN...OR NEAR HERSHEY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ANNVILLE AND CLEONA AROUND 305 PM EDT... CORNWALL AND LEBANON AND SAND HILL AROUND 310 PM EDT... MYERSTOWN AROUND 315 PM EDT... KLEINFELTERSVILLE AND RICHLAND AROUND 320 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 4036 7664 4021 7658 4032 7618 4045 7637 ONDREJIK/JUNG $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 73 min |
| Jul 14, 8:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 60 min |
| Jul 14, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Perry | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 2:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | York | 41 min |
| Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.