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Flash Flood Warning 242, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 1996, 7:59 PM EST for Lancaster County, Lebanon 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 13, 1996, 7:59 PM EST (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 14, 1996, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 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, 2:54 PM EST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 2:54 PM EST, 5 hours 5 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, 9:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 9:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 9:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 11:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 11:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 6 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.