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Flash Flood Warning 143, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 4:08 PM EDT for Bedford County, Somerset 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
- Sep 6, 1996, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bedford County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 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 Sep 6, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 215 PM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996 CURRENT THINKING ON FRAN SIMILAR TO THIS AM...TRACKING TOWARD W PA. ONLY DIFFERENCE IS SOME DfRY AIR TRYING TO ENTER CIRCULATION ...MAY CUT DOWN ON PCPN FOR SOME AREAS...ESP W AREAS. PIT...F.Y.I. COUPLE OF TREES DOWN ON MT. DAVIS. CURRENT FCST/WATCHES/WARNINGS OK FOR NOW. NO NEW MODELS IN YET. MARTIN
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Juniata, Perry | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Perry | 63 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.