Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Mar 27, 1992, 5:49 AM EST for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1992, 5:49 AM EST (10:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1992, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KIPT 271049 FFWIPT PAC015-271645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 549 AM EST FRI MAR 27 1992 ...SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING FOR TOWANDA CREEK AND SUGAR CREEK IN BRADFORD COUNTY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...BRADFORD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT BOTH TOWANDA AND SUGAR CREEK ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. THEY ARE NOT THREATENING HOUSES AT THIS TIME BUT ARE RUNNING ACROSS SOME ROADWAYS. A SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. KJF NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 2:35 AM EST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
PAZ007-008-014-271000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 235 AM EST FRI MAR 27 1992 ...HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES OVER PARTS OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN FELL OVER SECTIONS OF NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THURSDAY EVENING INTO EARLY THIS MORNING. THE HEAVIEST RAINS REMAIN OVER BRADFORD COUNTY WHERE ALMOST 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST SIX HOURS. HERE AT THE WILLIAMSPORT-LYCOMING COUNTY AIRPORT 1.50 INCHES FELL SINCE THE STORM BEGAN THURSDAY MORNING. WHILE THE RAIN IS MUCH-NEEDED...THE AMOUNT FALLING IN SUCH A SHORT TIME COULD CAUSE SOME DRAINAGE PROBLEMS AROUND THE REGION. A SECTION OF ROUTE 44 NEAR ELIMSPORT HAD WATER RUNNING ACROSS IT FROM ADJACENT SPRING CREEK. OTHER CREEKS IN THE REGION WERE NOT RUNNING HIGH AT THIS TIME. OTHER REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF MINOR BASEMENT FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. ANYONE TRAVELING THIS MORNING THROUGH NORTHCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR PONDED WATER ON ROADWAYS. THIS WITH ANY LEFTOVER FOG COULD MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT AROUND THE REGION EARLY THIS MORNING. KJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 6:04 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bradford | 6 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.