Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 1995, 8:27 AM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1995, 8:27 AM EDT (12:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1995, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 161227 FFWCTP PAC071-161630- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 827 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...LANCASTER COUNTY AT 820 AM EDT THE STAGE OF THE LITTLE CHICKIES CREEK HAD REACHED FLOOD STAGE OF 8 FEET. THE CREEK SHOULD BE NEARING IT/S CREST AT THIS TIME AND SOME LOWLAND FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE CREEK THROUGH THE MORNINHOURS. NO ADDED RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA INTO EARLY AFTERNOO 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. DUNHAM
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.
NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 15, 2:57 PM EDT, 17 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:57 PM EDT, 17 hours 30 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 255 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995 REMAINS OF THE COLD FRONT EXTEND FROM CAPE COD WEST ACROSS CENTRAL PA TO NORTHERN OH AT 18Z. SATELLITE SHOWED SUPPRESSION OF THE CLOUDS ACROSS PA BEHIND THE BOUNDARY THAT ADVECTED OUT AHEAD OF THE EARLY MORNINGS CONVECTION...DESPITE THE INCREDIBLE INSTABILITY ON MORNING RAOB. THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT THE BOUNDARY MOVED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE STATE REACHING INTO OH THIS AFTERNOON. NVA QUITE EVIDENT ALOFT ACROSS WESTERN PA THIS AFTERNOON AND ALSO FAIR INDICATION OF ANTICYCLONIC TURNING IN THE CLOUD MOTION ON THE SATELLITE. THIS PROBABLY ACCOUNTS FOR THE LACK OF CONVECTION ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE EXPLODED OUT AHEAD OF THE UPPER SHORT WAVE THAT IS MOVING NORTHEAST FROM KENTUCKY INTO OH. THAT SAME UPPER WAVE IS PROGGED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND SPREAD INTO WESTERN PA OVERNIGHT. BEST CHANCE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFT MIDNIGHT HERE IN CENTRAL PA. DOES APPEAR THAT WE/VE HIT THE PEAK OF THE HEAT WAVE AND AS THE SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS SOUTH OVERNIGHT THAT JUST A BIT LESS HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL BE OVER MOST OF THE AREA. CONCUR WITH NEED TO KEEP THE AXDVISORY UP UNTIL THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN TONIGHT. TED
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:39 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
PAZ018-019-025>028-034>036-160800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 239 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... CENTER... BLAIR... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN... JUNIATA... BEDFORD... FULTON... AND FRANKLIN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER TONIGHT HAVE NOW MOVED INTO EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE ABOVE COUNTIES HAS ENDED. JUNG
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 2:47 AM EDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
PAZ018-019-025>028-034>036-160800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 239 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... CENTER... BLAIR... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN... JUNIATA... BEDFORD... FULTON... AND FRANKLIN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER TONIGHT HAVE NOW MOVED INTO EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE ABOVE COUNTIES HAS ENDED. JUNG
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PAZ050-052-056>059-063>066-161100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 435 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY REGION OF PENNSYLVANIA... ADAMS... YORK... LANCASTER... DAUPHIN... CUMBERLAND... PERRY... SNYDER... SCHUYLKILL... NORTHUMBERLAND AND LEBANON. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER TONIGHT HAVE NOW MOVED WELL TO THE EAST. THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE ABOVE COUNTIES HAS ENDED. NICOSIA
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 4:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
PAZ050-052-056>059-063>066-161100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 435 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY REGION OF PENNSYLVANIA... ADAMS... YORK... LANCASTER... DAUPHIN... CUMBERLAND... PERRY... SNYDER... SCHUYLKILL... NORTHUMBERLAND AND LEBANON. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER TONIGHT HAVE NOW MOVED WELL TO THE EAST. THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE ABOVE COUNTIES HAS ENDED. NICOSIA
Local storm report, Jul 16, 6:48 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
650 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
...THE FOLLOWING IS A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE SEVERE WEATHER
AND FLASH FLOODING OBSERVED DURING SATURDAY EVENING AND EARLY SUNDAY
JULY 15 THROUGH 16. TIMES ARE IN EDT. ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS
MAY BE MADE AFTER FURTHER INFORMATION IS RECEIVED AND
PROCESSED...
TIME EDT COUNTY STATE REMARKS/LOCATIONS
======== ====== ===== =================
9 PM CUMBERLAND PA POWERLINES DOWN IN NEWBURGH.
(APPROX)
930 PM FRANKLIN PA TREES DOWN IN PLESANT HILL AND
ROXBURY
953 PM CAMBRIA PA DIME SIZED HAIL IN BELSANO
1022 PM FRANKLIN PA TREE FELL ON A TOWER ON NORTH MOUNTAIN
1110 PM CAMBRIA PA STREETS FLOODED AND CLOSED IN JOHNSTOWN
1140 PM CLEARFIELD PA TREES DOWN IN COLEPORT AND FLINTOWN
1209 AM CENTRE PA WIND GUST TO 59 MPH AT PENN STATE
UNIVERSITY ON TOP OF WALKER BUILDING
(STATE COLLEGE).
1218 AM HUNTINGDON PA TREES DOWN IN ROBERTSDALE AND BROADTOP
1220 AM BEDFORD PA TREES AND POLE DOWN ACROSS OVER
- 1 AM SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COUNTY.
1230 AM MIFFLIN PA TREES DOWN GRANDVILLE TOWNSHIP
WIRES DOWN IN LEWISTOWN
1230 AM FRANKLIN PA MERCERSBURG NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN. TREES AND TREE LIMBS
DOWN IN FAYETEVILLE AND UPPER
STRASBURG
1236 AM FRANKLIN PA WINDS TO 60 MPH AND TREE BRANCHES DOWN
IN GREENCASTLE.
100 AM UNION PA TREES DOWN IN GREGG TOWNSHIP AND
WATSONTOWN (APPROX)
100 AM JUNIATA PA WIND GUST TO 50 MPH IN NOOK, TREE DOWN
IN BEALE TOWNSHIP.
130 AM ADAMS PA TREES DOWN IN FAIRFIELD
135 AM YORK PA TREES DOWN IN DILLSBURG
140 AM YORK PA TREES DOWN IN HANOVER
210 AM DAUPHIN PA WIND GUST TO 60 MPH AT MIDDLETOWN
AIRPORT
212 AM LEBANON PA TREE DOWN IN COLEBROOK AND MT GRETNA
215 AM YORK PA TREES DOWN IN RED LION.
2-3 AM LANCASTER PA LARGE NUMBER OF TREES DOWN ACROSS
THE COUNTY.
245 AM LANCASTER PA TWO ROOFS WERE BLOWN OFF HOUSES IN
THE EPHRATA \AREA. SEVERAL FARM
BUILDINGS HAD SIDING BLOWN OFF NEAR
MANHIEM. 31000 CUSTOMERS WERE WITHOUT
POWER AS OF 4 AM.
NICOSIALocal storm report, Jul 16, 6:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
650 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
...THE FOLLOWING IS A PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE SEVERE WEATHER
AND FLASH FLOODING OBSERVED DURING SATURDAY EVENING AND EARLY SUNDAY
JULY 15 THROUGH 16. TIMES ARE IN EDT. ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS
MAY BE MADE AFTER FURTHER INFORMATION IS RECEIVED AND
PROCESSED...
TIME EDT COUNTY STATE REMARKS/LOCATIONS
======== ====== ===== =================
9 PM CUMBERLAND PA POWERLINES DOWN IN NEWBURGH.
(APPROX)
930 PM FRANKLIN PA TREES DOWN IN PLESANT HILL AND
ROXBURY
953 PM CAMBRIA PA DIME SIZED HAIL IN BELSANO
1022 PM FRANKLIN PA TREE FELL ON A TOWER ON NORTH MOUNTAIN
1110 PM CAMBRIA PA STREETS FLOODED AND CLOSED IN JOHNSTOWN
1140 PM CLEARFIELD PA TREES DOWN IN COLEPORT AND FLINTOWN
1209 AM CENTRE PA WIND GUST TO 59 MPH AT PENN STATE
UNIVERSITY ON TOP OF WALKER BUILDING
(STATE COLLEGE).
1218 AM HUNTINGDON PA TREES DOWN IN ROBERTSDALE AND BROADTOP
1220 AM BEDFORD PA TREES AND POLE DOWN ACROSS OVER
- 1 AM SEVERAL PARTS OF THE COUNTY.
1230 AM MIFFLIN PA TREES DOWN GRANDVILLE TOWNSHIP
WIRES DOWN IN LEWISTOWN
1230 AM FRANKLIN PA MERCERSBURG NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN. TREES AND TREE LIMBS
DOWN IN FAYETEVILLE AND UPPER
STRASBURG
1236 AM FRANKLIN PA WINDS TO 60 MPH AND TREE BRANCHES DOWN
IN GREENCASTLE.
100 AM UNION PA TREES DOWN IN GREGG TOWNSHIP AND
WATSONTOWN (APPROX)
100 AM JUNIATA PA WIND GUST TO 50 MPH IN NOOK, TREE DOWN
IN BEALE TOWNSHIP.
130 AM ADAMS PA TREES DOWN IN FAIRFIELD
135 AM YORK PA TREES DOWN IN DILLSBURG
140 AM YORK PA TREES DOWN IN HANOVER
210 AM DAUPHIN PA WIND GUST TO 60 MPH AT MIDDLETOWN
AIRPORT
212 AM LEBANON PA TREE DOWN IN COLEBROOK AND MT GRETNA
215 AM YORK PA TREES DOWN IN RED LION.
2-3 AM LANCASTER PA LARGE NUMBER OF TREES DOWN ACROSS
THE COUNTY.
245 AM LANCASTER PA TWO ROOFS WERE BLOWN OFF HOUSES IN
THE EPHRATA AREA. SEVERAL FARM
BUILDINGS HAD SIDING BLOWN OFF NEAR
MANHIEM. 31000 CUSTOMERS WERE WITHOUT
POWER AS OF 4 AM.
NICOSIAThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 68 min |
| Jul 15, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 9:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 58 min |
| Jul 15, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 69 min |
| Jul 15, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 11:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 11:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 12:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 44 min |
| Jul 16, 12:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Fulton | 3 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 12:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Juniata, Perry | 81 min |
| Jul 16, 12:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton, Union | 68 min |
| Jul 16, 12:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Snyder | 68 min |
| Jul 16, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 78 min |
| Jul 16, 1:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, York | 59 min |
| Jul 16, 1:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 63 min |
| Jul 16, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 33 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995
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.