Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 148, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 6:51 PM EDT for Mifflin 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, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mifflin County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 062251 FFWCTP PAC041-067-087-099-070300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 651 PM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CUMBERLAND COUNTY...JUNIATA COUNTY...MIFFLIN COUNTY ...PERRY COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF FRAN MOVING ACROSS THE AREA. RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE COMMON ACROSS THE SHIPPENSBURG... BLAIN AND SOUTH OF EAST WATERFORD. HEAVY RAIN HAS CAUSED FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 522 IN SOUTHEAST HUNTINGDON COUNTY FROM THE SAME AREA OF RAIN. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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 Sep 6, 2:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 2:12 PM EDT, 4 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 6:06 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
PAZ024>028-033>036-056-063>066-062300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - TORNADO WATCH EXPIRES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 604 PM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH EXPIRES... THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND PORTIONS OF THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY HAS EXPIRED AS OF 600 PM. ALTHOUGH THE REMNANTS FROM FRAN WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT...THE THREAT OF TORNADOES HAS ENDED. JUNG
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 6:22 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-045-049-050- 056-063-070400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 620 PM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996 ...HIGH WIND WARNINGS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA... HIGH WIND WARNINGS ARE NOW IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THE HIGH WIND WARNINGS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: WARREN... MCKEAN... POTTER... ELK... CAMERON... CLEARFIELD... CENTRE... CLINTON... CAMBRIA... BLAIR... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN... JUNIATA... SOMERSET... BEDFORD... FULTON... FRANKLIN... UNION... SNYDER... PERRY... AND CUMBERLAND. HIGH WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE FRAN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. THE WINDS WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME DAMAGE...ESPECIALLY TO TREES AND POWER LINES. HIGHEST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND RIDGES. JUNG
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, 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, 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.