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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 1994, 3:15 PM EDT for Elk County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1994, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 1994, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elk County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 949 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 271917 FFWCTP PAC047-272015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 315 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...ELK COUNTY AT 310 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN STATE COLLEGE SHOWED A BAND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM RUSSEL CITY IN NORTHWEST ELK COUNTY TO 10 MILES EAST OF ST MAYRS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. RADAR ESTIMATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST HOUR HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN ELK COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME ORD BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JUNG
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 58 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 57 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, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | McKean | 3 hr |
| 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, 3:56 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
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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.