Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jan 18, 1996, 3:24 PM EST for Crawford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 1996, 3:24 PM EST (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 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 KCLE 182029 FFWCLE PAC039-190230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 324 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY AN ICE JAM HAS OCCURRED ON THE FRENCH CREEK SOUTH OF MEADVILLE. SOME FLOODING HAS ALREADY OCCURRED. WATER WAS BUILDING UP RAPIDLY BEHIND THE JAM AND IF THE JAM BREAKS FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO OCCUR. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR$ LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. GABRIC
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:41 AM EST, 4 hours 43 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-182000- WIND ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1045 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTEROON AND TONIGHT. DEEP LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HAVE CAUSED SOUTHERLY WINDS TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA. WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MILES AN HOUR. WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS BUT BEGIN TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOOSE OBJECTS OUTDOORS SHOULD EITHER BE TIED DOWN OR BROUGHT INDOORS. DEM
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:45 AM EST, 4 hours 39 minutes before
OHZ002-003-005>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-PAZ001>003-182000- WIND ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1045 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTEROON AND TONIGHT. DEEP LOW PRESSURE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY HAVE CAUSED SOUTHERLY WINDS TO INCREASE OVER THE AREA. WINDS WILL AVERAGE 25 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR WITH GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MILES AN HOUR. WINDS WILL REMAIN STRONG THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS BUT BEGIN TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOOSE OBJECTS OUTDOORS SHOULD EITHER BE TIED DOWN OR BROUGHT INDOORS. DEM 6v74748 27 P5 3*8Ei`WWUS d6 2fY`WWUS.& \1290P2Xj@a`WWUS X4` I6WWUS 8c''WWUS L8p65 o6WWUS <P6WWUSh L>HC#6WWUSB |C WWUS
Nearby
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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.