Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2001, 6:24 PM EDT for Centre 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
- Aug 19, 2001, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2001, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Centre County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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 192229
FFWCTP
PAC027-200130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
624 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA
* UNTIL 930 PM EDT.
* AT 619 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL
CENTRE COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
WARNED AREA. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY RISE OUT OF THEIR
BANKS...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHERN CENTRE COUNTY WHERE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE REGION EARLIER THIS EVENING.
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 4098 7731 4084 7746 4074 7785 4078 7829
4116 7795
JUNGThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 43 min |
| Aug 19, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Elk | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 70 min |
| Aug 19, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 19 min |
| Aug 19, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Union | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 24 min |
| Aug 19, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Union | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Montour, Northumberland | 35 min |
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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.