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Flash Flood Warning 144, NWS State College, PA

September 6, 1996Franklin County, Fulton County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 4:08 PM EDT for Franklin County, Fulton 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 Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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 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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The office that day

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	Bedford, Somerset	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

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.