Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1994, 4:10 AM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1994, 4:10 AM EDT (08:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1994, 6:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 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, 8.2 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
- 512 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 280813 COR FFWIPT PAC015-281015- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING - CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLIAMSPORT PA 410 AM EDT TUE JUN 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLIAMSPORT HAS EXTENDED THE SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...BRADFORD COUNTY THE BRADFORD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY REPORTED THAT WATER WAS RUNNING OVER NORTH ROME ROAD IN LITCHFIELD TOWNSHIP. HIGH WATER HAS ALSO WASHED DEBRIS ACROSS THE ROAD...BLOCKING THE HIGHWAY. BASEMENT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN LITCHFIELD WITH OVER 3 FEET OF WATER REPORTED IN THE BASEMENT OF ONE HOME. PARTS OF SMITHFIELD ROAD WERE CLOSED WITH NEARLY 2 FEET OF WATER REPORTED OVER SECTIONS OF THE ROAD. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL IN MANY AREAS ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. SHOWERS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WILL SLOWLY MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. HOWEVER...CONTINUED RUNOFF FROM THE RAIN MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL SMALL STREAM FLOODING. 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. NEMETH & NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 12:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bradford | 3 hr |
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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.