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Tornado Warning 6, NWS State College, PA

June 11, 2014Bedford County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2014, 7:22 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 11, 2014, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2014, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bedford County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jun 11, 7:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Hopewell, PA	LARGE TREE ON HOUSE

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
Jun 11, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

638 
WFUS51 KCTP 112322
TORCTP
PAC009-112345-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0006.140611T2322Z-140611T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
722 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT
    
* AT 720 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT 
  HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EVERETT IN BEDFORD 
  COUNTY...AND IT IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SAXTON...DEFIANCE AND HOPEWELL. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A
BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY
BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR OUTDOORS...
MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM
FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4009 7838 4024 7832 4020 7819 4018 7816
      4006 7827
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 200DEG 16KT 4010 7829 

$$

LA CORTE

1 follow-up statement

945 
WWUS51 KCTP 112337
SVSCTP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
737 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014

PAC009-112345-
/O.CON.KCTP.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-140611T2345Z/
BEDFORD PA-
737 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BEDFORD COUNTY...

AT 736 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
THAT HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADIC STORM WAS 
LOCATED NEAR DUDLEY...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SAXTON...DEFIANCE AND HOPEWELL. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED. TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE...TAKE
COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE HOME OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4009 7825 4012 7837 4024 7832 4020 7819
      4018 7816
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 200DEG 16KT 4017 7826 

$$

LA CORTE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Clearfield	44 min
Jun 11, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	32 min
Jun 11, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	41 min
Jun 11, 5:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Bedford	33 min
Jun 11, 6:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Bedford	36 min
Jun 11, 6:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Bedford	36 min
Jun 11, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Somerset	63 min
Jun 11, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Bedford	23 min
Jun 11, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	25 min
Jun 11, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Fulton	38 min
Jun 11, 7:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset	3 hr
Jun 11, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Elk, Somerset	55 min
Jun 11, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin, Fulton	38 min
Jun 11, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Mifflin	61 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.