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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 7, 1997, 9:37 PM EST for Cameron County, Clearfield 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
- Nov 7, 1997, 9:37 PM EST (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 1997, 3:45 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cameron County, PA, Clearfield County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 Nov 7, 5:46 PM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 5:46 PM EST, 3 hours 51 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 545 PM EST FRI NOV 7 1997 ...ZONE SUGGESTIONS... PIT/PHL...SEE BELOW. ...DISCUSSION... WILL GET THIS OUT EARLY. SEVERAL REPORTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN...WITH MINOR FLOODING. USE RADAR DATA WITH CAUTION. SENT OUT QPS...BASED ON HEAVY RAIN ROTATING AND LIFTING NORTHWARD THROUGH SAT AFT. RFC/S ADJUST AS YOU SEE FIT. WSFO/S...CALL IF SIG. CHANGES..*.MAIN THING...LETS KEEP IT SIMPLE. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 9:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 6 hr |
| Nov 7, 9:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 6 hr |
| Nov 7, 9:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 6 hr |
| Nov 7, 9:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 6 hr |
| Nov 7, 9:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 12:48 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Perry | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Huntingdon | 5 hr |
| Nov 8, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Perry | 5 hr |
| Nov 8, 3:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Somerset | 5 hr |
| Nov 8, 5:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 4 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon | 2 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Clearfield | 2 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Somerset | 2 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield | 3 hr |
| Nov 8, 10:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 3 hr |
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.