Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 170, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 1996, 3:03 AM EDT for Fulton County, Huntingdon 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 13, 1996, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 1996, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:05 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 401 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 130700 FFWCTP PAC057-061-131200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 303 AM EDT FRI SEP 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S IN PENNSYLVANIA ...FULTON COUNTY...SOUTHERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN SINCE 11 PM FROM EXTREME SOUTHERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY... ACROSS NORTHEAST FULTON COUNTY TO SOUTH CENTRAL FULTON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS ENDED FOR HUNTINGDON AND FULTON COUNTIES... BUT RUNOFF FROM THE PREVIOUS HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE THE FLOODING OF STREAMS AND CREEKS IN SOUTHERN HUNTINGDON COUNTY AND OVER MUCH OF FULTON COUNTY. THE AUGHWICK CREEK AT SHIRLEYSBURG IS EXPECTED TO RISE TO NEAR BANKFUL BY EARLY AFTERNOON. 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. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE RO0ADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 13, 2:09 AM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 2:09 AM EDT, 54 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 210 AM EDT FRI SEP 13 1996 THE COLD FRONT MOVED INTO CENTRAL PA LAST EVENING BUT HAS GROUND TO A HALT AND IMPULSES IN THE UPPER FLOW HAVE TENDED TO MOVE MOISTURE NORTH AND EVEN WEST PRODUCING THE TRAINING OF STORMS THAT CAUSED THE FLOODING OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL COUNTIES OVERNIGHT. SURFACE MOISTURE TENDS TO BE PACKED SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ALONG THE MOUNTAINS OUT OF VIRGINIA INTO CENTRAL PA. THERE IS EVERY REASON TO BE PESSIMISTIC TODAY AS THE UPPER CUTOFF MOVES SOUTHEAST AND A STRONG SHORT WAVE COMES EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO. LIFTED INDEXES ARE STRONGLY NEGATIVE. THE PROBLEM OF THE DAY MAY RELATE TO HOW MUCH MOISTURE IS AVAILABLE WHICH MAY LIMIT SUNSHINE AND SEVERE WEATHER AND CONTINUE THE MAIN PROBLEM OF HEAVY RAINS AND FLASH FLOODS. TALKED WITH PIT BY PHONE AND CONCUR WITH FLASH FLOOD WATCHES FOR MANY OF THE CENTRAL COUNTIES THIS MORNING. DUNHAM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 12, 9:19 PM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
920 PM EDT THU SEP 12 1996
TIME(EDT) ...CITY LOCATION..........ST ...EVENT/REMARKS
...COUNTY LOCATION........
0813 PM BEDFORD SPRINGS PA 1 INCH HAIL
09/12/96 BEDFORD HAIL COVERED GROUND
VSBY NEAR ZERO IN HAIL
MICHAUDLocal storm report, Sep 12, 9:24 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE, PA
921 PM EDT THU SEP 12 1996
TIME(EDT) ...CITY LOCATION..........ST ...EVENT/REMARKS
...COUNTY LOCATION........
0315 PM CROSBY PA .75 INCH HAIL
09/12/96 MCKEAN DIME-SIZE HAIL
0330 PM JOHNSONBURG PA .25 INCH HAIL
09/12/96 ELK PEA-SIZE HAIL
0340 PM PORT ALLEGANY PA WIND DAMAGE
09/12/96 MCKEAN TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN
0340 PM ELDRED PA FLASH FLOOD
09/12/96 MCKEAN STREET FLOODING
0345 PM SMETHPORT PA WIND DAMAGE
09/12/96 MCKEAN TREES DOWN
0355 PM JOHNSONBURG PA FLASH FLOOD
09/12/96 ELK MINOR STREET FLOODING
ALONG RT 219
0410 PM ST MARYS PA .25 INCH HAIL
09/12/96 ELK PEA-SIZE HAIL
0813 PM BEDFORD SPRINGS PA 1 INCH HAIL
09/12/96 BEDFORD HAIL COVERED GROUND
VSBY NEAR ZERO IN HAIL
MICHAUDThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 9:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 119 min |
| Sep 12, 10:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 5 hr |
| Sep 12, 11:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Fulton | 4 hr |
| Sep 12, 11:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 5 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Perry | 4 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 6 hr |
| Sep 13, 7:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Fulton | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 11:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996
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.