Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS State College, PA

Issued

Jan 8, 1998, 9:20 AM EST (14:20 UTC)

Expired

Jan 8, 1998, 2:15 PM EST

In force

5 hr

Issued by

NWS State College, PA

Area

Whole counties

County McKean County, PA

The State College radar (KCCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
TTAA00 KCTP 081420 RRA
FFWCTP
PAC083-081915-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
920 AM EST THU JAN 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED
A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...MCKEAN COUNTY
 
SMALL STREAMS ACROSS MCKEAN COUNTY CONTINUE TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.
 
WHILE MOST OF THE REAL HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED...SOME ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL
OCCURR INTO EARLY AFTERNOON.  ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS LIKELY.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 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.
 
MARTIN
 
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NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 8, 8:45 AM EST, 35 minutes earlier.

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
845 AM EST THU JAN 8 1998

...ZONE SUGGESTIONS...

PIT/PHL...CALL IF SIG. CHANGES PLANNED.

...DISCUSSION...

ABOUT 1 TO 2 INCHES OVERNIGHT.  NO SIG. PROBLEMS SO FAR
...EXCEPT WARREN.  TRIED A SEVERE WARNING...NEG FOR DAMAGE
SO FAR.

LOOKS LIKE SOME SHOWERS NOW AND THEN...WILL LOOK AT THIS AFT
TO SEE IF ANY MORE SIG. RAIN EXPECTED LATER ON.

MARTINV

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.