Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2015
Tornado Warning 7, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2015, 5:24 PM EDT for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 14, 2015, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2015, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lycoming County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
480
WFUS51 KCTP 142124
TORCTP
PAC081-142200-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0007.150614T2124Z-150614T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
524 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL LYCOMING COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 523 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
OVER COGAN STATION...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONTOURSVILLE...WILLIAMSPORT...COGAN STATION...HUGHESVILLE...
LOYALSOCKVILLE...MUNCY...GARDEN VIEW...PICTURE ROCKS...SOUTH
WILLIAMSPORT...LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES COMPLEX AND WILLIAMSPORT
AIRPORT.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 180 FROM MILE MARKERS 9 TO 26.
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 4133 7664 4117 7672 4117 7683 4130 7713
4138 7707
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 287DEG 21KT 4132 7706
$$
WATSON1 follow-up statement
244
WWUS51 KCTP 142146
SVSCTP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
546 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015
PAC081-142200-
/O.CON.KCTP.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150614T2200Z/
LYCOMING PA-
546 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN LYCOMING COUNTY...
AT 545 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
MONTOURSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONTOURSVILLE...HUGHESVILLE...LOYALSOCKVILLE...MUNCY...PICTURE ROCKS
AND WILLIAMSPORT AIRPORT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4117 7673 4119 7682 4126 7695 4133 7692
4130 7665 4117 7672
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 287DEG 21KT 4128 7689
$$
WATSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Somerset | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 34 min |
| Jun 14, 2:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | McKean, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CTP | Cambria, Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, Lycoming, McKean and 5 more | 14 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder and 1 more | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union | 74 min |
| Jun 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon | 50 min |
| Jun 14, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 6:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lancaster | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 26 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.