Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 7, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2005, 3:56 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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, 2005, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lycoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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 121956
TORCTP
PAC081-122030-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0007.050812T1956Z-050812T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
356 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
LYCOMING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
* UNTIL 430 PM EDT
* AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION NEAR RALSTON...OR 15 MILES
NORTH OF MONTOURSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WHEN A TORNADO
WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG
ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE
ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BARBOURS AROUND 410 PM EDT...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 4138 7699 4149 7699 4150 7700 4155 7700
4157 7682 4156 7680 4152 7680 4143 7676
4138 7671
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 23 min |
| Aug 12, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 78 min |
| Aug 12, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 45 min |
| Aug 12, 4:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 63 min |
| Aug 12, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 33 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.