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Flash Flood Warning 164, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 1996, 6:36 AM EDT for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 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 12, 1996, 6:36 AM EDT (10:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1996, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cumberland County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 12, 12:48 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 12:48 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1250 AM EDT THU SEP 12 1996 SHOWERS OFF THE SC COAST MOVING N...UG...A SIGN OF PROBLEMS...MAYBE. ISOL SVR OVER WNY...HEADING INTO MORE STABLE AIR AND AWAY FROM BEST DYNAMICS. NGM HAS BACKED OFF MOISTURE AHEAD OF COLD FRONT TODAY...AND LOW LEVEL FLOW IS WEAK...AND FROM THE N...AND DWPTS NOT THAT HI...SO MAYBE A FEW SHOWERS...EXCEPT MAYBE EXT NW PA ...WHERE A T STORM IS PSBL. FRONT SLOWLY WORKS ACROSS REGION TODAY AND FRIDAY. WAVE LIKELY TO FORM ON FRONT AND TRACK NNW TOWARD REGION ON FRIDAY...AND IT COULD BE A WET DAY FOR E PA. WOULD THINK RAIN WOULD TAPER OFF E PA BY FRI EVEN...AS UL TROUGH GOES NEG. CAT 3 HUR COULD GET PULLED NW INTO NEW ENGLAND...GIVEN TILT. WHILE PA MAY MISS THE RAIN FROM HUR...PTS FROM ALB NY EASTWARD COULD BE A DIFF STORY. ETA AND NGM ARE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WITH OVERALL SIT. ONCE UL TROUGH GOES THRU LATER THIS WEEKEND...INSTABILTY SHOWERS WILL BE PSBL...ALONG WITH COOLER TEMPS. AIRMASS LIKELY TO MODIFY A LOT. OTHERWISE A FAIR AMT OF SUNSHINE OVER MUCH OF C PA TIL THEN. ...LOWER POPS MAY BE NEEDED ON ZNS TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND HIGHER ON E ZNS FOR FRIDAY..R.MAY BE THE WAY TO GO... MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 57 min |
| Sep 12, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 58 min |
| Sep 12, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 58 min |
| Sep 12, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 59 min |
| Sep 12, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 63 min |
| Sep 12, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 67 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.