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Tornado Warning 2, NWS State College, PA

June 4, 2016Bedford County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2016, 6:52 PM EDT for Bedford County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 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 4, 2016, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2016, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

Counties Bedford County, PA, Somerset County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

535 
WFUS51 KCTP 042252
TORCTP
PAC009-111-042315-
/O.NEW.KCTP.TO.W.0002.160604T2252Z-160604T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
652 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BEDFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN SOMERSET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
    
* AT 651 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BERLIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BUFFALO MILLS AROUND 710 PM EDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
RAINSBURG AND MANNS CHOICE.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATES...
 THE PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 132 AND 134...AND
FROM MILE MARKERS 136 TO 145.
 INTERSTATE 99 NEAR MILE MARKER 2.

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 OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3982 7883 3991 7886 4009 7853 3986 7847
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 250DEG 21KT 3988 7880 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

DANGELO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	28 min
Jun 4, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Fulton	24 min
Jun 4, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Bedford	34 min
Jun 4, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Somerset	42 min
Jun 4, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Fulton, Somerset	3 hr
Jun 4, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CTP	Somerset	43 min
Jun 4, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	29 min
Jun 4, 7:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Bedford	3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.