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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2000, 9:33 PM EDT for Adams County, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 117 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2000, 9:33 PM EDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, PA, Cumberland County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCTP 280139 FFWCTP PAC001-041-280330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 933 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CUMBERLAND COUNTY. ADAMS COUNTY. * UNTIL 1130 PM EDT. * AT 930 PM EDT...FLOODING WAS REPORTED ACROSS NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY...AND SOUTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY. IN NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY...IN MENALLEN TOWNSHIP...FLOODING WAS REPORTED. FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG GREEN MOUNTAIN ROAD...MEYERS ROAD...AND CREEKVIEW ROAD IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY. ADDITIONAL FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 81...AND NORTH OF GETTYSBURG...AS MORE BANDS OF HEAVY STORMS MOVE WESTWARD. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ LAT...LON 4025 7715 3987 7714 3985 7745 4017 7746 & MARTIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, York | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 93 min |
| Aug 27, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Snyder | 40 min |
| Aug 27, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin, Union | 42 min |
| Aug 27, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 58 min |
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.