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Flash Flood Warning 215, NWS State College, PA

December 1, 1996Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 1, 1996, 4:59 PM EST for 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: Dec 1, 1996, 4:59 PM EST (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Dec 1, 1996, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Schuylkill County, PA

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 Dec 1, 11:42 AM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 1, 11:42 AM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Dec 1, 12:07 PM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Dec 1, 4:31 PM EST, 28 minutes before

PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-
046-049>053-056>059-063>066-012200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WIND ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
430 PM EST SUN DEC 1 1996

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE WIND ADVISORY
THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA TO
EXPIRE...

WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BRISK THROUGH THE EVENING AS A
STRONG COLD FRONT SWEEPS ACROSS THE REGION...BUT OVERALL WIND
SPEEDS ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF DIMINISHING AND BECOMING MORE
LOCALIZED IN NATURE.

LA CORTE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 1, 4:23 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	CTP	Lancaster	4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996 Every 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.