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Flash Flood Warning 230, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 1996, 11:56 AM EST for Adams County, York County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 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 13, 1996, 11:56 AM EST (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 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 Dec 13, 10:03 AM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 10:03 AM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO FFS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 10 AM EST FRI DEC 13 1996 PIT...CORD TO UPDATE WATCH AREAS. PHL...WRKZFP LOOK GOOD. BAND OF LIGHT TO MODERATE PRECIP MOVING NORTH OVER CENTRAL PA ATTM. THIS ACTIVITY IS AHEAD OF A SLOW MOVING OCCLUDED TYPE FRONT. WV IMAGERY SHOWS SECOND SHRTWV OVER N CAROLINA ROUNDING BASE OF NEG TILT TROF AND THIS WILL ENHANCE PRECIP ACROSS E PA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO FLOODING PROBLEMS SO FAR...RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING AT STEADY RATE (ARND.10/HR) FOR THE PAST 12 HRS. HOWEVER...WITH SECOND WAVE PROGGED TO MOVE INTO AREA...HRLY RATES SHLD DOUBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF E PA LATER THIS AFTN. FLOOD WATCH TO CONTINUE E OF CENTRE COUNTY. ...LAKE SNOW OUTLOOK... FRI NOON TO FRI 7PM...N... FRI 7PM TO SAT 7AM...N... SAT 7AM TO SAT 7PM...N... WINTHER
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 11:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata, Northumberland, Snyder, Union | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Montour | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:39 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 5 hr |
| Dec 13, 1:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 3:09 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Union | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Montour | 3 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.