Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 26, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT for Bedford County, Fulton County, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2011, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bedford County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:35 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Nw Orbisonia, PA | TREES DOWN ALONG RTE 747 |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074
WFUS51 KCTP 272146
TORCTP
PAC009-057-061-272245-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0026.110527T2146Z-110527T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
546 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BEDFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
NORTHERN FULTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
SOUTHERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 544 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE STORM
CONTAINING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NEAR BREEZEWOOD...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SIDELING HILL REST AROUND 555 PM EDT...
WELLS TANNERY AROUND 600 PM EDT...
WATERFALL AROUND 610 PM EDT...
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.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
TAKE COVER INSIDE NOW. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. PUT AS
MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS YOU CAN. AVOID WINDOWS.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
&&
LAT...LON 4003 7837 4038 7799 4033 7773 4027 7770
4022 7776 3992 7821
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 209DEG 21KT 4001 7821
$$
FORECASTER:The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan | 59 min |
| May 26, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 46 min |
| May 26, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 27 min |
| May 26, 10:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 36 min |
| May 27, 12:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Perry | 59 min |
| May 27, 12:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 49 min |
| May 27, 1:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia, Dauphin, Lebanon, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill and 2 more | 61 min |
| May 27, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin | 58 min |
| May 27, 2:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 57 min |
| May 27, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 28 min |
| May 27, 2:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Cambria, Somerset | 3 hr |
| May 27, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford | 95 min |
| May 27, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 67 min |
| May 27, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron | 76 min |
| May 27, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Somerset | 54 min |
| May 27, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Juniata, Perry | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Columbia | 29 min |
| May 27, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Potter | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 59 min |
| May 27, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Tioga | 44 min |
| May 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Union | 25 min |
| May 27, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Somerset | 3 hr |
| May 27, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Mifflin, Snyder, Union | 49 min |
| May 27, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon | 63 min |
| May 27, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 69 min |
| May 27, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford | 46 min |
| May 27, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 58 min |
| May 27, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Tioga | 55 min |
| May 27, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 23 min |
| May 27, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Sullivan | 52 min |
| May 27, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 64 min |
| May 27, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Sullivan | 61 min |
| May 27, 6:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Tioga | 59 min |
| May 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 54 min |
| May 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 45 min |
| May 27, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Mifflin, Snyder, Tioga and 1 more | 59 min |
| May 27, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | York | 49 min |
| May 27, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata and 2 more | 65 min |
| May 27, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Perry, York | 71 min |
| May 27, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 45 min |
| May 27, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 70 min |
| May 27, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, York | 46 min |
| May 27, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Juniata, Mifflin, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder and 1 more | 81 min |
| May 27, 7:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Tioga | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.