Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 12, 1996, 5:00 AM EDT for Franklin 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
- Jun 12, 1996, 5:00 AM EDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1996, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 Jun 12, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 2:11 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 11:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Snyder | 69 min |
| Jun 12, 5:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 67 min |
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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.