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Flash Flood Warning 106, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 1996, 2:45 AM EDT for McKean County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1996, 2:45 AM EDT (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1996, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McKean County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 16, 9:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 9:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 69 min |
| Jul 16, 11:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 63 min |
| Jul 17, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 3:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.