Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1994, 2:23 PM EDT for McKean County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1994, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McKean County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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 KCTP 271824 RRA FFWCTP PAC083-272130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 223 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...MCKEAN COUNTY AT 220 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AND RAIN GAUGE DATA INDICATED THAT OVER 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR IN MANY AREAS OF SOUTHERN MCKEAN COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN MCKEAN COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO MAKING FLOODING LIKELY. 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.
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, Aug 27, 1:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PAZ004>006-037-041-042-271820- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 117 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE COUDERSPORT AREA... AT 115 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR FROM STATE COLLEGE SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF COUDERSPORT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST ALONG RTE 6 AND CROSS THE COUDERSPORT AREA AROUND 130 PM. THIS STORM WILL REACH NEAR GALETON BY 215 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED ALONG THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES FROM TIOGA COUNTY WEST TO WARREN COUNTY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH 3 PM. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. NICOSIA
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PAZ004>006-037-041-042-271820- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 117 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE COUDERSPORT AREA... AT 115 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR FROM STATE COLLEGE SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF COUDERSPORT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST ALONG RTE 6 AND CROSS THE COUDERSPORT AREA AROUND 130 PM. THIS STORM WILL REACH NEAR GALETON BY 215 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED ALONG THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES FROM TIOGA COUNTY WEST TO WARREN COUNTY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH 3 PM. AT SIGNS OFR AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. NICOSIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 43 min |
| Aug 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, McKean | 60 min |
| Aug 27, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Sullivan | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 3:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk | 60 min |
| Aug 27, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 4:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk, Warren | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Monroe, Northampton | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northampton | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 68 min |
| Aug 27, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 68 min |
| Aug 27, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Berks | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 44 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.