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Tornado Watch 336

June 14, 202627 counties in Pennsylvania

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 14, 2026, 5:41 PM EDT for 27 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2026, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2026, 9:39 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 1 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 27 counties

Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Elk County, PA, Forest County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Potter County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA, Warren County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	31 min
Jun 14, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CTP	Elk, McKean, Warren	54 min
Jun 14, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, Venango	54 min
Jun 14, 5:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Jefferson	41 min
Jun 14, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Potter, Tioga	26 min
Jun 14, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Washington and 1 more	59 min
Jun 14, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton	52 min
Jun 14, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Clearfield	39 min
Jun 14, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter	49 min
Jun 14, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Fayette, Indiana, Jefferson, Washington and 1 more	76 min
Jun 14, 6:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Allegheny, Westmoreland	27 min
Jun 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton and 3 more	65 min
Jun 14, 7:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Potter	31 min
Jun 14, 7:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Centre, Clearfield, Clinton	37 min
Jun 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CTP	Potter, Tioga	66 min
Jun 14, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Somerset	44 min
Jun 14, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Tioga, Union	52 min
Jun 14, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Huntingdon, Mifflin	45 min
Jun 14, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford, Fulton, Somerset	49 min
Jun 14, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CTP	Tioga	15 min
Jun 14, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CTP	Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan, Union	64 min
Jun 14, 8:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	32 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -187 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1223 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 11 more	8 hr
Jun 14, 1:40 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 6 more	5 min
Jun 14, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cameron, Clearfield, Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga and 1 more	5 hr
Jun 14, 3:17 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Franklin, York	118 min
Jun 14, 4:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cameron, Clarion and 16 more	113 min
Jun 14, 5:54 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria and 17 more	96 min
Jun 14, 6:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Columbia and 21 more	113 min
Jun 14, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Chester and 25 more	6 hr

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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.