Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Nov 8, 1997, 8:24 PM EST for 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 8, 1997, 8:24 PM EST (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 1997, 2:30 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clearfield County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 090125 FFWCTP PAC033-090730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 824 PM EST SAT NOV 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...SOUTHERN CLEARFIELD COUNTY WHILE MOST OF THE RAIN HAS ENDED...AREA STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHERN CLEARFIELD COUNTY REMAIN VERY HIGH. RUNOFF FROM NORTHERN CAMBRIA COUNTY HAS KEPTED NORTHWARD FLOWING STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHERN CLEARFIELD COUNTY ABOVE FLOOD LEVELS. WATER COVERS MANY ROADS ACROSS THE REGION...ESPECIALLY IN THE COALPORT AND WESTOVER AREAS. WATER LEVELS WILL REMAIN HIGH WELL INTO THE NIGHT. DO NOT CROSS FLOODED AREAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. MARTIN &
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 8, 7:00 PM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 7:00 PM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 700 PM EST SAT NOV 8 1997 ...ZONE SUGGESTIONS... PIT/PHL...OK AS IS. ...DISCUSSION... NOT MUCH CHANGE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. SOME CLEARING FROM W TO E LATE SUNDAY...LIKE TO SEE MORE DOWNWARD MOTION. SFC LOW NEAR DELMARVA AREA...AND 850 MB LOW FCST TO LIFT N. MAY INTENSIFY A LITTLE. RFC/S...JUST SENT NEW QPS FOR 00Z TO 00Z...CHANGED FCST SLIGHTLY...WAS THINKING E/W BANDS UP NORTH...BUT NOW THINK N/S BANDS PSBL...GIVEN ACTION OFF COAST...AND TRACK OF LOW. WSFO/S...CALL IF SIG. CHANGES. MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 8:28 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 5 hr |
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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.