Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 6, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Aug 26, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT for Franklin County, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 17 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 26, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2012, 2:47 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614
WFUS51 KCTP 261830
TORCTP
PAC055-061-261900-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0006.120826T1830Z-120826T1900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
230 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
SOUTHEASTERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 300 PM EDT
* AT 226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE STORM
CONTAINING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NEAR ST. THOMAS...MOVING NORTH
AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
UPPER STRASBURG...
FANNETTSBURG...
ROXBURY...
WILLOW HILL AND AMBERSON VALLEY...
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 WILL IMPACT THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 185
AND 198.
THIS WILL ALSO IMPACT THE FOLLOWING MAJOR ROADS...ROUTE 11...ROUTE
30...ROUTE 522.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3985 7784 4004 7789 4006 7786 4008 7790
4021 7794 4022 7764 3986 7770
TIME...MOT...LOC 1830Z 178DEG 20KT 3995 7778
$$
FORECASTER: STEINBUGL1 follow-up statement
426
WWUS51 KCTP 261847
SVSCTP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
247 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2012
PAC055-061-261857-
/O.CAN.KCTP.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120826T1900Z/
FRANKLIN PA-HUNTINGDON PA-
247 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HUNTINGDON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE TORNADO
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3985 7784 4004 7789 4006 7786 4008 7790
4021 7794 4022 7764 3986 7770
TIME...MOT...LOC 1847Z 178DEG 20KT 4004 7778
$$
FORECASTER: STEINBUGLThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin | 24 min |
| Aug 26, 3:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Perry | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Juniata, Perry | 67 min |
| Aug 26, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 38 min |
| Aug 26, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder, Union | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 73 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.