Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1997, 1:36 AM EDT for Franklin County, Fulton 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
- Jul 2, 1997, 1:36 AM EDT (05:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 5:35 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 906 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 020535 FFWCTP PAC055-057-020935- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 136 AM EDT WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 535 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ...FULTON COUNTY ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 130 AM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR FROM STATE COLLEGE SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE RIDGES OF WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND EASTERN FULTON COUNTY. THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS IN THE VICINITY OF MCCONNELLSBURG AND BIG COVE TANNERY IN EASTERN FULTON COUNTY AND NEAR FOLTZ... FORT LOUDON AND RICHMOND FURNACE IN WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY AND HAVE PRODUCED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 11 PM. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED LOCATIONS WHICH WILL LEAD TO FLOODING OF STREAMS AND CREEKS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. NICOSIA
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 Jul 1, 8:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 8:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 830 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 1997 SUGGESTIONS... .PIT...TONIGHT...ADD PATCHY FOG .PHL...TONIGHT...WUD LOWER TO CHC POPS GIVEN LATEST RADAR TRENDS. ALSO ADD PATCHY FOG. DISCUSSION... WV LOOP CLEARLY SHOWING S/WV AXIS MOVING INTO W PA WITH MARKED MID/UPPER LVL DRYING TAKING PLACE TO THE W. VWP SHOWING WEAK UNIDIRECTIONAL SW FLOW THRU H5...WHICH IS CURRENTLY SUPPORTING THE SLOW MOVING STORMS JUST W OF CWA. HOWEVER...FEEL CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY W/THIS FEATURE WILL DIE DOWN TONIGHT AS IT SLOWLY TRACKS ACROSS CPA...LIMITING FLASH FLOOD THREAT TO ONLY EXTREME W ZONES EARLY THIS EVE. ALSO...WITH DWPTS CURRENTLY RUNNING IN THE UPPER 60S TO NR 70...WUD ADD PATCHY FOG TO THE OVERNIGHT FCST. WEDNESDAY...MODEL RH FIELDS SHOW MID LVL DRYING WORKING INTO E PA IN THE WAKE OF S/WV. SE FLOW E OF MTNS MAY HOLD IN LOW CLDS/FOG UNTIL LATE MORNING. OTHERWISE...LOOKS PT SUNNY FOR ENTIRE FA BY AFTN. WUD HEDGE SLIGHTLY ABV MOS TEMPS GIVEN PARTIAL SUN AND H8 TEMPS APPROACHING 18-20C BY LATE IN THE DAY. FEEL AFTN TSRA WILL BE WIDELY SCT AT BEST. UPPER LVL RIDGING COMBINED W/LYR OF VERY WARM AIR H7-H5 WILL BE THE LIMITING FACTORS. WEDNESDAY NITE...VIGOROUS S/WV AND ASSOCIATED 100KT JET STREAK APPROACH AREA. MID/UPPER LVL DRYING/DIFFLUENCE...COMBINED WITH SURGE OF LL THTE IN LFQ...PUSH MODEL CAPES WELL ABV 1000 J/KG AT 12Z. CHC POPS OVER W ZONES SEEM WARRANTED...DESPITE LOWER MOS GUIDANCE. FITZGERALD
Nearby
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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.