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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS State College, PA

January 29, 1994Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 29, 1994, 3:20 AM EST for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 29, 1994, 3:20 AM EST (08:20 UTC)
Expired
Jan 29, 1994, 9:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Lycoming County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1994-01-29Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1994-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KIPT 290820
FFWIPT
PAC081-291400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA
320 AM EST SAT JAN 29 1994
 
...FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LITTLE MUNCY AND MUNCY CREEK
IN LYCOMING COUNTY...
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...LYCOMING COUNTY
 
ICE JAMS CONTINUE TO CAUSE BACKWATER FLOODING ALONG LITTLE MUNCY CREEK
BETWEEN LAIRDSVILLE AND UNITYVILLE.
 
ICE JAMS CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING IN THE ARMSTRONG TERRACE AREA OF
HUGHESVILLE.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
GINGRICH/GOUGH
NNNN

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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.