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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS State College, PA

November 28, 1993Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 28, 1993, 6:01 AM EST for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 28, 1993, 6:01 AM EST (11:01 UTC)
Expired
Nov 28, 1993, 10:00 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Schuylkill County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1993-11-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1993-11-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 524 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
524 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
708 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 28, 12:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPHuntingdon3 hr
Nov 28, 2:01 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster3 hr
Nov 28, 3:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPHuntingdon4 hr
Nov 28, 4:40 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPClinton5 hr
Nov 28, 5:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster3 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.