Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS State College, PA

Issued

Jun 25, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)

Expired

Jun 25, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS State College, PA

Area

Whole counties

County Franklin County, PA

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

000 
TTAA00 KCTP 252244
FFWCTP
PAC055-260045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
645 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 644 PM STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM NEAR NEWBURG SOUTHWARD TO GREENCASTLE. THESE STORMS WILL
CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTH AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...AND
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAYR BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
LA CORTE/MICHAUD

NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 25, 1:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
105 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995

SOME RW/TRW ON RADAR...BASED ON POSITION OF UA LOW AND WK TROUGH
ALONG LAKE...WORSE WILL BE LAKE SHORE AREA AND WEST OF MTS.
STILL A FEW RW/TRW EAST OF MTS...LWR SUSQ...GIVEN SOME HEATING
AND HI DEWPTS DOWN THERE.

EXPECT ACTIVITY TO DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET.

THINK MODELS OVERDO SIT. MON AFT/NIGHT...AS BEST DYNAMICS LOOK TO
BE FOCUS ON S. APP. MTNS AGAIN.  HARD TO SEE A QPF MAX.

NGM MAY OVERDO COLD AIR WEDGE TUE AM AGAIN.  AIR MASS WILL NOT BE
VERY DEEP.

MARTIN

In the hours before

PAZ004-017-024-033>036-260500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
637 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 1995

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH EFFECTIVE
UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

WARREN       CLEARFIELD      CAMBRIA      SOMERSET
BEDFORD       FULTON          FRANKLIN

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SPREAD OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL
PENNSYLVANIA.  THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING.  SLOW MOVING
STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.  SOME OF
THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE LOCALLY HEAVY AND CAUSE ISOLATED
PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS A ROADWAY WHICH IS COVERED BY FLOOD WATERS.
THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK.  ABANDON YOUR VEHICLE AND
SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

MICHAUD/LA CORTE

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.