Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:09 PM EDT for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 8:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Schuylkill County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCTP 132110 FFWCTP PAC071-107-140010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 509 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCHUYLKILL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 810 PM EDT * AT 500 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN LANCASTER AND SCHUYLKILL COUNITES...MOVING SLOWLY EAST. RAIN WILL TAPER OFF AFTER 6 PM...BUT SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. * DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD! JUNG/OSTUNO &
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 Jun 13, 1:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 145 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 WORK ZONES TO BE SENT TO PIT AND PHL BY 230 PM. ...DISCUSSION... TSRA DEVELOPING RIGHT ON Q WITH SMALL HAIL REPORTED IN OGLESTOWN... NORTHEAST SOMERSET COUNTY. VIL OF 34 WHILE THIS WAS OCCURING. VIL BUMPED UP TO 41 AT 1255 PM SO WE WARNED SOUTHERN BLAIR COUNTY. GETTING REPORTS OF 35 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM FULTON AND SOUTHERN BLAIR COUNTIES. STORMS SEEM TO BE INTENSIFYING SO IT WILL BE A BUSY AFTN. HENCE FORTH NO TIME TO BE VERBOSE BUT DO WANT TO THANK TONY FOR PHONE COORD. AGREE THAT FFA SHUD BE LEFT AS IS. WILL HAVE TO WAIT ON WHETHER TO ADD YORK COUNTY. BUT PIVOT POINT ON NEW ETA APPRS TO BE A BIT FURTHER EAST SO +TSRA SHUD MOVE THRU YORK B4 STALLING E OF THE RIVER. IF TSTM COMPLEX BEGINS SLOWING DOWN WILL COORD EXPANSION OF FFA. HEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 11:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 3 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.