Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1996, 12:27 PM EDT for Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 93 min. 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 24, 1996, 12:27 PM EDT (16:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1996, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bedford County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 Jun 24, 9:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 930 AM EDT MON JUN 24 1996 NOT MUCH TIME TO LOOK AT GUIDANCE. PHL... NO FFA/S YET... WE WILL CONT TO MONITOR FOR PSBL FFA THRU AFTRN IN SUS VLLY. PIT FFA/S CURRENTLY IN EFFECT CAN EXPIRE AT 11 AM FOR COUNTIES. IF FFA IS EXTENDED FOR SW PA FOR THIS AFTRN I WOULD INCLUDE CAMBRIA... CLEARFIELD AND SOMERSET. RADAR CONTS TO SHOW ACVTY FIZZLING OUT AS IT REACHES DEEPER INTO THE STBL AIR OVR CWA. THERE IS CONTINUAL REDEVELOPMENT AND INTENSIFICATION TO THE SW TWD THE HIER DWPTS AND MORE UNSTBL AIR. MODELS INDICATE THAT WRM FRNT IN THE LOW-LVL/S PASS THRU THE REGION THIS AFTRN WITH A RIBBON OF HIER THETA-E AIR WORKDING ACRS ST IN ADVANCE OF MID LVL PV MAX. THIS PV MAX WILL CROSS SUS VLLY THIS EVE AND CUD CONDITION ENV FOR SIG CNVTN AGAIN IN SUS VLLY THIS AFTRN/EVE. THAT/S IT. NICOSIA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 8:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PAZ010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-041-045-046-049>052-056-057- 063>065-241800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 900 AM EDT MON JUN 24 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR MOST OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY REGION: ELK... CAMERON... CLINTON... LYCOMING... CLEARFIELD... CENTRE... UNION... SNYDER... NORTHUMBERLAND... MONTOUR... CAMBRIA... BLAIR... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN... JUNIATA... PERRY... DAUPHIN... SOMERSET... BEDFORD... FULTON... FRANKLIN... CUMBERLAND... ADAMS AND YORK. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND LARGE HAIL 3/4 INCHES OR GREATER. ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA... THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. THUS... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS UNTIL 11 AM. NICOSIA
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 11:56 AM EDT, 31 minutes before
PAZ004-005-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-041-045-046-049>052- 056-057-063>065-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT- SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1155 AM EDT MON JUN 24 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR WARREN AND MCKEAN COUNTIES... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR MOST OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR WARREN AND MCKEAN COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY REGION: ELK... CAMERON... CLINTON... LYCOMING... CLEARFIELD... CENTRE... UNION... SNYDER... NORTHUMBERLAND... MONTOUR... CAMBRIA... BLAIR... HUNTINGDON... MIFFLIN... JUNIATA... PERRY... DAUPHIN... SOMERSET... BEDFORD... FULTON... FRANKLIN... CUMBERLAND... ADAMS AND YORK. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCRH MEANS THAT THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH AND HAIL 3/4 INCHES OR GREATER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. NICOSIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 12:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 12:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 93 min |
| Jun 24, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 69 min |
| Jun 24, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 70 min |
| Jun 24, 3:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Cambria | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 70 min |
| Jun 24, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 67 min |
| Jun 24, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.