Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 7, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2006, 10:53 PM EDT for McKean County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 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 25, 2006, 10:53 PM EDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2006, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McKean County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KCTP 260254
TORCTP
PAC083-260330-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0007.060826T0253Z-060826T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1053 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MCKEAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
* AT 1049 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
MOUNT JEWETT...OR NEAR KANE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MOUNT JEWETT AND KANE AROUND 1105 PM EDT...
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 6.
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.
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
THIS STORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS. THESE WINDS CAN OCCUR MANY MILES AWAY FROM THE TORNADO.
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 4176 7879 4171 7883 4163 7878 4164 7842
4173 7863
$$
FORECASTER: LAMBERT1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KCTP 260333
SVSCTP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
1133 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006
PAC083-260343-
/O.EXP.KCTP.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-060826T0330Z/
MCKEAN PA-
1133 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MCKEAN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
THE TORNADO WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE...AS THE STORM HAS
WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LEVELS.
IF YOU EXPERIENCED LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE...PLEASE
REPORT THIS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 4176 7879 4171 7883 4163 7878 4164 7842
4173 7863
$$
FORECASTER: DANGELOThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Warren | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 9:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 87 min |
| Aug 25, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 10:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Tioga | 74 min |
| Aug 25, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 38 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.