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Tornado Warning 3, NWS State College, PA

June 19, 2007Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2007, 5:06 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 24 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 19, 2007, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2007, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KCTP 192106
TORCTP
PAC081-192130-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0003.070619T2106Z-070619T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
506 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LYCOMING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 505 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  HUGHESVILLE...OR 13 MILES EAST OF MONTOURSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BIGGERTOWN AROUND 525 PM EDT...

THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 220...STATE
ROAD 118.

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 4117 7660 4116 7666 4118 7674 4125 7681
      4134 7668 4130 7661 4130 7657 4128 7653
      4128 7646

$$

FORECASTER: KF

The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter	37 min
Jun 19, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Fulton	35 min
Jun 19, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming	65 min
Jun 19, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Huntingdon	45 min
Jun 19, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Sullivan	48 min
Jun 19, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin	76 min
Jun 19, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	58 min
Jun 19, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	66 min
Jun 19, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming	49 min
Jun 19, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder	41 min
Jun 19, 3:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Lycoming	3 hr
Jun 19, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Union	24 min
Jun 19, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Northumberland	58 min
Jun 19, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Snyder	27 min
Jun 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin	41 min
Jun 19, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland	54 min
Jun 19, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia	55 min
Jun 19, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cumberland	64 min
Jun 19, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	York	60 min
Jun 19, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Perry	55 min
Jun 19, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Huntingdon	53 min
Jun 19, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lebanon	61 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Northumberland, Schuylkill	83 min
Jun 19, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, York	63 min
Jun 19, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	86 min
Jun 19, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	56 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.