Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 181, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 1996, 4:17 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Lebanon County, Schuylkill 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
- Oct 8, 1996, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dauphin County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 Oct 8, 12:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 12:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1255 PM EDT TUE OCT 8 1996 ...PHI...CAN SEE WHAT THINGS LOOK LIKE AT 2 PM...BEFORE DECIDING ON WATCH... CURRENT DATA AND NEW MODEL RUNS INDICATE STORM AND HEAVIEST RAIN WILL TRACK FURTHER EAST THAN WE THOUGHT EARLIER...THUS DONT EXPECT A LOT OF RAIN...UNLESS THINGS GET GOING SOON. COMBINATION OF CLDS HAVE BEEN MAKING TAFS A LOT OF FUN. MAY BREAK OUT LATER THIS AFT. SO FAR TEMPS HAVE NOT GONE UP MUCH ACROSS C PA. IN THE LONG TERM...ENERGY DROPPING INTO MEAN TROUGH POSITION WILL KEEP COOL AND SOMEWHAT WET WX ACROSS REGION NEXT FEW DAYS. AIRMASS IS FCST BY NGM TO BECOME A LITTLE UNSTABLE WED AFT...AS WEAK LOW MOVES ACROSS...AND TEMPS ALOFT COOL...SO A FEW SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE. A LARGE VARIATION IN CLDS WILL MAKE FOR A WIDE RANGE IN THE TEMP DEPT. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 4:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 4 hr |
| Oct 8, 4:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 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.