Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 193, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 1996, 5:00 AM EDT for 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
- Oct 20, 1996, 5:00 AM EDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 1996, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Huntingdon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:59 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 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 200901 FFWCTP PAC061-201400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 500 AM EDT SUN OCT 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 1000 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...HUNTINGDON COUNTY AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH THIS MORNING ACROSS HUNTINGDON COUNTY FROM RAINFALL DURING THE LAST DAY. AUGHWICK CREEK AT SHIRLEYSBURG WAS AT 11.2 FEET AND FALLING SLOWLY AT 500 AM THIS MORNING. SEVEREAL ROADS REMAIN CLOSED. ONLY LIGHT RAIN IS ANTICIPATED TODAY...AND CREEKS AND STREAMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGHOUT THE MORNING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 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. 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 Oct 20, 2:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 2:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 245 AM EDT SUN OCT 20 1996 CURRENT SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS SURFACE LOW SOMEWHERE IN THE VICINITY OF MDT...PROBABLY A LITTLE NORTH OF THE AIRPORT. THIS POSITION CONTINUES TO BE A BIT FARTHER NORTH THAN THE MODEL POSITIONS. VERY INTENSE AND VERTICALLY STACKED SYSTEM WILL MAKE LITTLE EFFORT TO LEAVE THE AREA OVER THE NEXT 48 HRS. LOW IS FORECAST TO DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE NORTH AND FILL WITH TIME. THIS FORECAST SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THOSE WHERE KEEPING IT SIMPLE IS BETTER THAN TRYING TO TIME SPECIFIC RAIN EVENTS. DIRECT ATLANTIC MOISTURE TAP IS NOW CUT OFF FOR THE AREA WITH NORTHEAST FLOW ALOFT ESTABLISHED. SYSTEM CONTINUES TO BE VERY EFFICIENT IN PULLING MOISTURE AROUND IT/S BACKSIDE...AND INTO PA. PCPN ACTUALLY SEEMS TO BE AT A MIN UNDER THE LOW CENTER ATTM...WITH KCCX SHOWING THE MOST SIGNIFICANT RAINS IN THE CTP CWA WRAPPING FROM BFD SOUTHWEST TO JST. KCCX AND IFLOWS INDICATE THAT THREE HOUR RAFL AMOUNTS GENERALLY .10 TO .20. I DON/T SEE ANY POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS MOVING BACK INTO THE AREA...JUST A STEADY LIGHT TYPE OF PCPN. IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TRY TO TIME INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS AND SHORTWAVES SPINNING AROUND THE UPPER LOW TODAY. OBS WOULD ALSO INDICATE THAT PCPN IS EVEN MORE WIDESPREAD THAN RADAR WOULD INDICATE... WITH EVERY LOCATION REPORTING PCPN. EXPECT THIS TO BE ONE OF THOSE EVENTS THAT RAIN VERY SLOWLY DECREASES AND BECOMES SHOWERY WITH TIME...AND LOW CLOUDS HANG TOUGH INTO MONDAY. FOR THE ZONES...WOULD GO WITH A PRETTY GENERIC "PERIODS OF LIGHT RAIN" TYPE FORECAST TODAY. AS FAR AS SNOW IS CONCERNED... ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO WARM AS SYSTEM FILLS. ZERO 850 LINE SCOOTS SOUTH OF PA THIS MORNING...WITH TEMPS RISING SLOWLY THROUGH THE FCST PERIOD. IT IS TOUGH TO SAY WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE RIDGES TONIGHT WITHOUT ANY DIRECT OBS...BUT I WOULD SUSPECT THAT SNOW IS MINIMAL. TEMPS SEEM 3-5 DEGREES WARMER THAN LAST NIGHT WHEN JST/AOO AND UNV HAD SNOW. WOULD NOT MENTION SNOW IN PUBLIC ZONES TODAY. AS FOR TEMPS...MOS SEEMS TOO HIGH...AND WOULD TRIM TEMPS BACK. SEE THAT PIT IS THINKING SIMILARLY. JUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 9:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 8 hr |
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.