Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 9, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2004, 3:19 PM EDT for York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 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, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:20 PM EDT | HAIL 0.25 | Manchester, PA | PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED |
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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 141919
TORCTP
PAC133-142000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
318 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
YORK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 309 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR DOVER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
WEIGELSTOWN AROUND 320 PM EDT...
YORK AND EMIGSVILLE AND JACOBUS AROUND 330 PM EDT...
SPRY AND MANCHESTER AROUND 335 PM EDT...
DALLASTOWN AROUND 340 PM EDT...
STONYBROOK AND RED LION AROUND 345 PM EDT...
HALLAM AND WINDSOR AROUND 350 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 4003 7695 4009 7669 4006 7664 4005 7654
4001 7651 3995 7647 3992 7641 3991 7641
3991 7648 3986 7691
$$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, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 46 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 |
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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.