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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS State College, PA

June 28, 1994Bradford County, Pennsylvania

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1994-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1994-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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
&
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 12:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPBradford3 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.