Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jan 24, 1999, 7:51 AM EST for Centre 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 24, 1999, 7:51 AM EST (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1999, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Centre County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:50 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -201 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 241251 FFWCTP PAC027-067-241700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 751 AM EST SUN JAN 24 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRE COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. JUNIATA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 1200 PM EST. * AT 755 AM RAIN WAS ENDING ACROSS CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. * RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAIN AND SNOWMELT HAS CAUSED FLOODING OF SOME STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. IN CENTRE COUNTY...SPRING CREEK IS FLOODING IN THE VICINITY OF HOUSERVILLE. IN JUNIATA COUNTY... NUMEROUS ROADS ARE CLOSED INCLUDING LIBERTY ROAD IN DELAWARE TOWNSHIP...ROUTE 2003 IN WALKER TOWNSHIP AND ROUTE N235 IN THE TOWN OF MAZE. USE CAUTION WHILE TRAVELING TODAY...AS SOME ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS MAY BE COVERED BY FLOODWATERS. .END/KF &
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 Jan 24, 2:30 AM EST, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 2:30 AM EST, 5 hours 21 minutes before
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 230 AM EST MON JAN 24 1999 ...WORK ZONES WILL BE SENT BY 330 AM AS PHLADMCTP... ...ZONES TO FOLLOW BETWEEN BY 400 AM... OTHER THAN TWO RIVER POINTS IN A FLOOD WARNING ATTM (HARPER/S TAVERN AND HOGESTOWN)...HYDROLOGIC ACTIVITY MUCH QUIETER THAN LAST NIGHT. ANTICIPATE DROPPING THE FLOOD WARNINGS EARLY TODAY. LOOK FOR PHLFLSCTP TO ANNOUNCE THE END OF THE FLOOD WARNING. ALSO WILL BE ISSUING AN EARLY MORNING RVS FOR OTHER HIGH FLOW POINTS ON THE SUSQ. SNOW AHEAD OF CLIPPER SYSTEM WORKING INTO WESTERN PA ATTM. SNOW HAS JUST STARTED IN BFD DURING THE PAST HOUR...WITH VSBY/S DOWN TO 4 MILES. EXPECT ACCUMULATING SNOWS WILL PROBABLY HOLD OFF TILL EARLY MORNING IN MY CWA. SHORTWAVE...SUPPORTED BY UPPER JET...WORKS ACROSS PA TODAY. THE STATE REMAINS IN THE RIGHT EXIT REGION OF THE JET THROUGH THE AFTERNOON... SO SNOW WILL LINGER THROUGH A GOOD PART OF THE DAY. MODELS NOW IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH AROUND .10 LIQUID ACROSS THE NORTH. THIS STILL MAY BE SOMEWHAT UNDERDONE...AS 6 HR PCPN PLOTS IN LOWER MI SHOW .10 TO .25 INCHES. OROGRAPHIC ASCENT MAY ALSO HELP TO GENERATE A LITTLE ADDITIONAL SNOW ACROSS THE NORTHERN MTS...SO WILL GO WITH A 1 TO 3 INCH ACCUM THERE. WILL ALSO BUMP LAURELS UP TO AROUND AN INCH. FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST...WILL TAPER SNOW TO SNOW SHOWERS AND FINALLY JUST LOW CHANCE POPS IN THE LOWER SUSQ. THINGS CLEAR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AS HIGH BUILDS IN. WILL KEEP ZONES MOSTLY SUNNY TUESDAY...AND ONLY MENTION INCREASING HIGH CLOUDS IN THE NORTHWEST LATE IN THE DAY. .CTP...NONE. JUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 7:32 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 10:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre | 6 hr |
| Jan 23, 11:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 6 hr |
| Jan 24, 1:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 7:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Juniata | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 8:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Northumberland | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 8:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Union | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 9:23 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 3 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Union | 4 hr |
| Jan 24, 1:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.