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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS State College, PA

July 28, 1995Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1995, 5:53 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1995, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
10 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, 9.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 650 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 28, 2:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:05 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
205 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995

...SHORT TERM...
TRW DVLG IN WRN PA ATTM WHERE ADAP SHOWS LI/S TO -9. LEFT-OVER
OUTFLO FROM THIS MORN/S CONVTN (SEEN ON ERLR VSBL IMAGERY) POSSBLY
HAS TRIGGERED CONVTN. WV IMAGERY CONTS TO SHOW EWRD PROGRESSION OF
UPR LVL S/W TWD PA ALSO HELPING SUPPORT CONVTN. THIS MORN/S 500 MB
UPR AIR CHART AND 12Z MODEL RUNS SHOWS COOLER AIR AT 500 MB
PRECEDING S/W TROF AXIS WHICH WAS STEEPENING LAPSE RATES ACRS WRN
PA ATTM. LATEST ADAP CHARTS SHOW BEST SFC MOISTURE CONV TO THE E OF
THIS DVLPG CONVTN IN CNTRL PA WHICH SUGGESTS ACVTY WILL HOLD
TOGETHER AND CONT TO DVLP AS IT MOVS INTO CNTRL PA. SLIGHTLY MORE
STBL AIR ACRS CNTRL PA WITH DWPTS IN THE UPR 60S WON/T HELP BUT
SHUD STILL BE ENUF TO SUPPORT CNVTN LATE AFTRN/ERLY EVE INTO
CNTRL/ERN PA. WUD CONT LIKELY POPS TRW THIS EVE CNTRL PA.

...LONGER TERM...
MODELS ALL INDICATE THAT THIS S/W SLOWS DOWN AND GETS SHEARED OUT
AS IT TRYS TO IMPINGE ON UPR HI OFFSHORE TONIGHT. MODELS SHOW THAT
A LO-LVL SRLY WIND MAX DVLPS AHEAD OF THIS UPR LVL S/W E OF MTNS BY
00Z WHICH MAY HELP FOCUS CONVTN MORE. AT THE SAME TIME... THE NERN
U.S LIES IN THE RIGHT ENTR REGION OF AN UPR LVL JET WHICH WILL
ENHANCE UPR LVL DVRG ACRS THE REGION ABV THIS LO-LVL CONV REGION.
PLENTY OF MOSITURE ARND...  PWATS RUNNING NR 2.0 INCHES IN LWR SUS
VLLY AT 00Z ON ETA/NGM (NO AVN GRIDS YET) AND WV VAPOR IMAGERY
CONTINUES TO SHOW MOIST SWRLY FLO ARND UPR HI CIRCU. THINK CNTVN
THAT IS FORMING IN WRN PA WILL MOV INTO ERN PA LATER THIS EVE AND
CUD BECOME A HVY RAIN EVENT FOR LWR SUS VLLY. WUD CONSIDER HI POPS
LWR SUS VLLY AND MENTION OF HVY DOWNPOURS IN FCST.

THIS INITIAL S/W WILL OUTRUN SFC FRNT/PRES TROF THAT CURRENTLY RAIN
ACRS LWR MI-IL. BOTH ETA/NGM ALL INDICATE AN AMPLIFICATION OF THE
UPR LVL RDG ACRS THE GREAT LAKES IN RESPONSE TO WAA AHEAD OF A
DVLPG STORM IN SC CANADA. WITH THE RDG BUILDING IN THE GREAT LAKES
REGION... NEXT VORT LOBE RIDING ON TOP OF UPR RDG WILL DIVE A
LITTLE FURTHER S BEING THE IMPETUS TO PUSH THIS FRNT/PRES TROF ACRS
ST. MODELS DIFFER IN TIMING WITH NGM MOST AGRESSIVE. ETA A LITTLE
SLOWER. LIKE ETA SINCE FRNT AND DRYER AIR LIKELY WILL HV A HARD
TIME MAKING ANY PROGRESS E OF MTNS. WUD GO CHC POPS WRN/CNTRL CTP
FA SAT AND KEEP POPS OUT SUS VLLY UNTIL EVE HRS AS FRNT TENDS TO
GET HUNG UP.

WILL MONITOR 88D NO ZONES.
PFT/S OUT.

NICOSIA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
334 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995

...A LONE THUNDERSTORM WENT SEVERE AS IT CROSSED THE MD/PA LINE
EARLY THURSDAY EVENING...JUL 27 1995...INFO. FROM WBC...THANKS...

610 PM    FULTON        PA     SEVERAL TREES DOWN...ROOF OFF SHED
                               ON TOLLGATE RIDGE...1 MILE NORTH OF
                               MD/PA BORDER.  DAMAGE ALONG RTE.
                               928.

MARTIN
Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
334 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995

...A LONE THUNDERSTORM WENT SEVERE AS IT CROSSED THE MD/PA LINE
EARLY THURSDAY EVENING...JUL 27 1995...INFO. FROM WBC...THANKS...

610 PM    FULTON        PA     SEVERAL TREES DOWN...ROOF OFF SHED
                               ON TOLLGATE RIDGE...1 MILE NORTH OF
                               MD/PA BORDER.  DAMAGE ALONG RTE.
                               928.

MARtTIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 4:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPClearfield68 min
Jul 28, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCameron58 min
Jul 28, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPWarren62 min
Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPElk33 min
Jul 28, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCambria62 min
Jul 28, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMcKean57 min
Jul 28, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPotter56 min
Jul 28, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster, Lebanon66 min
Jul 28, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPYork61 min
Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCameron60 min
Jul 28, 5:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPLebanon3 hr
Jul 28, 5:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPCambria3 hr
Jul 28, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPCambria56 min
Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster65 min

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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.