Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2007, 5:04 PM EDT for York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 13, 2007, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2007, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 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), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 132106
TORCTP
PAC133-132130-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0002.070613T2104Z-070613T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
504 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN YORK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 502 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY ROTATING STORM
OVER SPRING GROVE...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF WEIGELSTOWN...MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. STROM SPOTTERS ALSO REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS
WITH THIS STORM.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SPRING GROVE AROUND 510 PM EDT...
CODORUS AROUND 520 PM EDT...
HANOVER AND PARKVILLE AROUND 530 PM EDT...
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 30...STATE
ROAD 94.
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.
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 3993 7670 3998 7685 3992 7699 3972 7699
3972 7681
$$
FORECASTER: DANGELOThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Snyder | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Juniata, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill | 74 min |
| Jun 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, York | 78 min |
| Jun 13, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 50 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.