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Flash Flood Warning 146, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 5:51 PM EDT for Blair County, Huntingdon 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
- Sep 6, 1996, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blair County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 062150 FFWCTP PAC001-013-061-070200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 551 PM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...SOUTHWESTERN ADAMS COUNTY...BLAIR COUNTY ...HUNTINGDON COUNTY RADAR ESTIMATES LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWESTERN ADAMS AND SOUTHERN HUNTINGDON COUNTIES ON THE ORDER OF 2-3 INCHES. THESE ESTIMATES MAY BE LOW DUE TO THE TROPICAL AIR. RADAR SHOWS A BAND OF HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS THIS REGION. THIS BAND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN BLAIR COUNTY OVER THE NEXT 1-3 HOURS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY UNDER THIS LARGE RAINBAND. 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 RISINGl WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. GRUMM
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, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 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
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, 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, 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.