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Flash Flood Warning 228, NWS State College, PA

December 2, 1996Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1996, 3:21 AM EST for Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 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 2, 1996, 3:21 AM EST (08:21 UTC)
Expired
Dec 2, 1996, 6:00 AM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS State College, PA
Area
Whole counties

County Lycoming County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-12-02Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-12-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -156 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-173 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 Dec 2, 3:07 AM EST, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 3:07 AM EST, 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 1, 7:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPBedford41 min
Dec 1, 8:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster4 hr
Dec 1, 8:25 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPFranklin4 hr
Dec 1, 8:43 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPBedford, Blair, Fulton, Huntingdon4 hr
Dec 1, 9:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPCentre, Clinton, Lycoming, Union4 hr
Dec 1, 9:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPTioga4 hr
Dec 1, 9:34 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPJuniata, Mifflin, Snyder4 hr
Dec 1, 10:37 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPColumbia, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan4 hr
Dec 1, 11:09 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPSchuylkill3 hr
Dec 2, 12:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPLancaster5 hr
Dec 2, 1:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPHuntingdon5 hr
Dec 2, 2:05 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPSchuylkill4 hr
Dec 2, 2:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningCTPColumbia3 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.