Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS State College, PA
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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
MARTINLocal 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.
MARtTINThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 68 min |
| Jul 28, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 33 min |
| Jul 28, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 65 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.