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Tornado Warning 8, NWS State College, PA

July 2, 2014Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2014, 1:01 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 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 2, 2014, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lycoming County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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 2, 11:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

698 
WFUS51 KCTP 021701
TORCTP
PAC081-021730-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0008.140702T1701Z-140702T1730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
101 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT
    
* AT 101 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR HUGHESVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MUNCY...HUGHESVILLE...LAIRDSVILLE...BIGGERTOWN AND PICTURE ROCKS. 

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 180 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 11 AND 14.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 4116 7659 4115 7663 4115 7668 4116 7670
      4118 7678 4130 7682 4134 7664 4130 7658
      4128 7646 4127 7645
TIME...MOT...LOC 1701Z 257DEG 25KT 4123 7668 

$$

JUNG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 11:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	55 min
Jul 2, 12:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	75 min
Jul 2, 12:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	60 min
Jul 2, 1:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Warren	3 hr
Jul 2, 1:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	McKean	76 min
Jul 2, 3:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Warren	62 min
Jul 2, 11:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	23 min
Jul 2, 11:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Sullivan	26 min
Jul 2, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	34 min
Jul 2, 11:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Franklin, Fulton	63 min
Jul 2, 12:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lycoming	61 min
Jul 2, 12:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	45 min
Jul 2, 12:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Union	54 min
Jul 2, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Franklin	61 min
Jul 2, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Columbia, Sullivan	38 min
Jul 2, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon	51 min
Jul 2, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lebanon	25 min
Jul 2, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster, Lebanon	49 min
Jul 2, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	40 min
Jul 2, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Schuylkill	28 min
Jul 2, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lebanon	46 min
Jul 2, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Lancaster	63 min
Jul 2, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Lancaster	35 min
Jul 2, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Lancaster	116 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.