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Flash Flood Warning 131, NWS State College, PA

August 14, 1996Bedford County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 1996, 4:07 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 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: Aug 14, 1996, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Bedford County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 14, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Bedford	62 min
Aug 14, 4:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Fulton	3 hr
Aug 14, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Franklin, Fulton	68 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.