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Flash Flood Warning 134, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1996, 5:39 PM EDT for Warren County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 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 15, 1996, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, PA
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 KCTP 152139 FFWCTP PAC123-160145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 539 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...WARREN COUNTY A SERIES OF SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED ACROSS WARREN COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS WARREN COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER WARREN COUNTY BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM. ANOTHER INCH OR MORE IS LIKELY THROUGH 700 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. JUNG
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 15, 12:07 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 12:07 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1205 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996 FIRST SET OF STORMS DIED...FEW MORE TRYING TO FIRE NE PA...SE NY ...AND SE PA. FIRST FRONT TO THE NORTH NOW...MAIN FRONT TO THE WEST...WITH STRONG CELL N OF L ERIE. BEST DYNAMICS STAY NW OF CWA THRU 00Z...AND WIND FIELDS NOT REAL STRONG...BUT INSTABILITY REMAINS HI. LOOKS LIKE ANYTHING THAT GETS GOING WILL BE OUT OF W PA BY MIDNIGHT OR SHORTLY LATER...WHILE ACTION COULD FIRE AGAIN ACROSS E PA FRIDAY AFT...AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH COMES THRU. LOOKS LIKE WE WILL GET THE FRONT THRU FOR THE WKEND...NOT MUCH MORE THAN A WIND SHIFT LINE/HZ CLEANER...AS AIRMASS MODIFIES. LOOKS >LIKE SAME OLD PATTERN WILL RELOAD AT SOME PT NEXT WK. TEMPS NEAR NORMAL THROUGHOUT PERIOD. MARTIN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 15, 2:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 208 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FROM THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS TO LAUREL HIGHLANDS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: WARREN...MCKEAN...POTTER...ELK...CAMERON...CLEARFIELD...NORTHERN CLINTON...CENTRE...CAMBRIA...BLAIR...HUNTINGDON...MIFFLIN...JUNIATA... SOMERSET...BEDFORD...FULTON...AND FRANKLIN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL 3/4 OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER...DAMAGING WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER... AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FITZGERALD END/LAST NAME
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 25 min |
| Aug 15, 7:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 69 min |
| Aug 15, 7:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 73 min |
| Aug 15, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 94 min |
| Aug 15, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 77 min |
| Aug 15, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 119 min |
| Aug 15, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 75 min |
| Aug 15, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.