Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 3, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 2008, 12:47 PM EDT for Adams County, York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 27, 2008, 12:47 PM EDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2008, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Adams County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KCTP 271647 TORCTP PAC001-133-271730- /O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0003.080727T1647Z-080727T1730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1247 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL YORK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... NORTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HEIDLERSBURG...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF HANOVER...MOVING EAST AT 24 MPH. NICKEL TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. * THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EAST BERLIN AROUND 1255 PM EDT... SPRING GROVE...THOMASVILLE AND WEIGELSTOWN AROUND 110 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. FIND SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 4001 7679 3981 7686 3988 7715 4004 7709 TIME...MOT...LOC 1646Z 283DEG 21KT 3993 7705 $$ FORECASTER: DEVOIR/LACORTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 59 min |
| Jul 27, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 17 min |
| Jul 27, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 12:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | York | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Franklin, York | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 24 min |
| Jul 27, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 66 min |
| Jul 27, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, York | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 23 min |
| Jul 27, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 90 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.