Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 8, 1998, 12:04 PM EST for Potter 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
- Jan 8, 1998, 12:04 PM EST (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 4:05 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Potter County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 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 081705 FFWCTP PAC105-082105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1204 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR POTTER COUNTY * UNTIL 405 PM EST * FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS THE COUNTY THIS MORNING. MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. ROAD FLOODING HAS BEGUN AND SMALL STREAMS HAVE ALSO BEGUN TO OVERFLOW. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS WILL MAKE FLOODING WORSE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DUNHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 10:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 7 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Somerset | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 5:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 7:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 66 min |
| Jan 8, 8:09 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:09 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:09 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 9:20 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | McKean | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Perry | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata, Northumberland, Snyder | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Union | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | McKean, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Fulton, Huntingdon | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:02 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Perry | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Potter | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cameron | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Mifflin, Union | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Juniata, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Perry and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.