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Flash Flood Warning 188, NWS State College, PA

October 19, 1996Franklin County, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 1996, 10:51 AM EDT for Franklin 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
Oct 19, 1996, 10:51 AM EDT (14:51 UTC)
Expired
Oct 19, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-10-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-10-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -127 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 19, 10:07 AM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 10:07 AM EDT, 44 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 19, 2:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster4 hr
Oct 19, 6:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPSchuylkill6 hr
Oct 19, 6:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster5 hr
Oct 19, 12:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPSchuylkill6 hr
Oct 19, 2:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPHuntingdon6 hr
Oct 19, 6:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCTPSchuylkill3 hr

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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.