Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS State College, PA

Issued

Jun 2, 1995, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)

Expired

Jun 2, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS State College, PA

Area

Whole counties

Counties Bedford County, PA, Somerset County, PA

The State College radar (KCCX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KCTP 022043
FFWCTP
PAC009-111-022345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAND AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
443 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...BEDFORD COUNTY...SOMERSET COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS ARE MOVING ACROSS BEDFORD AND
SOMERSET COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THESE
COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM...PRODUCING MORE HEAVY RAIN. FLOODING OF URBAN
AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED...AND SMALL STREAMS MAY OVERFLOW
THEIR BANKS.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
JUNG

NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 2, 9:56 AM EDT, 6 hours 47 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
945 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995

PIT SOUNDING SHOWING A DEEP LAYER OF MOISTURE OVER STATION WITH
PW OF 1.41 AND K INDEX OF 32. KCCX RADAR SHOWING A FEW SPRINKLES
ACROSS NE PA OTHERWISE NO PRECIP IN CWA. TO OUR WEST...KPBZ RADAR
SHOWING RW- AND A FEW TRW MOVING NNE ACROSS OH.

ALTHOUGH THE ATMOSPHERE IS PRIMED FOR HEAVY RAIN...HAVING A HARD
TIME FINDING A MECHANISM TO SPARK TRW ACROSS AREA. SFC LOW
TRACKING NE ACROSS OH LATE THIS AFTN WILL AID IN RW/TRW ACROSS OH
AND WESTERN PA FOR THE LATE AFTN AND EVE HOURS. 94Q HAS 1 INCH
TOTAL FOR W PA THRU 12Z SAT. NGM GRIDDED DATA HAS CLOSE TO A
HALF-INCH FOR CENTRAL PA THRU 12Z SAT (THIS ALREADY IN JEPRDY AS
PRECIP HAS YET TO MOVE INTO CWA THIS AM).

PIT... NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT FFA. BEST AREA WOULD BE WESTERN 1/4
OF PA.

TEMPS MAY HAVE TO BE REVISED UPWARD ACROSS CENTRAL PA...SOME
AREAS HAVE HAZY SUNSHINE... TEMPS CLIMBING.

WOlULD LIKE TO SEE ONE MORE MODEL RUN...

WINTHER

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.