Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 236, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 1996, 3:09 PM EST for Columbia County, Schuylkill 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, 3:09 PM EST (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 1996, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 132015 FFWCTP PAC037-107-140215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 309 PM EST FRI DEC 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...COLUMBIA COUNTY...SCHUYLKILL COUNTY STATE COLLEGE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A BAND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE OCCURRED OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY AND MUCH OF COLUMBIA COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO SLIDE SLOWLY EAST AND CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. AS A RESULT...SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. IN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY...THE PINE GROVE AND CUMBOLA AREA WAS REPORTING LOW-LYING FLOODING. IN COLUMBIA COUNTY...2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN BLOOMSBURG AS OF MID-AFTERNOON. 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. WINTHER/BUDD &
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, 2:54 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 2:54 PM EST, 15 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO FFS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 250 PM EST FRI DEC 13 1996 PIT...KEEP FFA FOR MIFFLIN...JUNIATA...S CENTRE AND CLINTON CNTY UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. PHL...KEEP FFA GOING TONIGHT FOR CTP'S CWA THRU SATURDAY MORNING. BND OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO TRAIN NORTHWARD ACROSS SUS VALLEY. SHRTWV WITH NICE COMMA SHAPE LOW PRESENTLY OVER NC/VA WILL ROTATE NORTH OVER THE NEXT 12 HRS. UNTIL THIS WAVE CAN SWEEP PRECIP NE OF FCST/A EXPECT RAIN...HVY AT TIMES TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE SUS VALLEY. TIMING END OF PRECIP...ARND 00Z FOR MIFFLIN AND JUNIATA AND BTWEEN 03-06Z FOR THE SUS VALLEY. WEAK HIGH MOVES INTO STATE ON SATURDAY NBEFORE NXT SYS APPROACHES SUNDAY. BUSY WITH WARNING GOT TO RUN..... ...LAKE SNOW OUTLOOK... FRI 7 PM TO SAT 7AM...N... SAT 7AM TO SAT 7PM...N... SAT 7PM TO SUN 7AM...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, 11:56 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 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, 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
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.