Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 112, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Nov 8, 1996, 10:11 PM EST for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 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
- Nov 8, 1996, 10:11 PM EST (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 1996, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 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 KPHL 090312 FFWPHL PAC011-025-089-090800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1011 PM EST FRI NOV 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CARBON COUNTY ...MONROE COUNTY ...BERKS COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THROUGH 3 AM FOR CARBON...MONROE AND BERKS COUNTIES. TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN CARBON COUNTY AND TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN MONROE AND BERKS COUNTIES. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS ADDITIONAL ONE INCH RAINS HEADING TOWARD THE AREA THAT WILL ONLY FURTHER EXACERBATE THE ONGOING SMALL STREAM AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA PRONE TO FLOODING...BE ALERT TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THE THREAT OF FLOODING IS OVER...REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT ON TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REMEMBER IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AT NIGHT TO JUDGE THE DEPTH OF WATER ON THE DROAD...OR TO EVEN KNOW IF A FLOODED ROAD IS STILL THERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION. TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 10:11 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 5 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.