Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2002, 11:50 AM EDT for Lycoming County, Sullivan 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
- May 13, 2002, 11:50 AM EDT (15:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2002, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lycoming County, PA, Sullivan County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:49 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 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 131550 FFWCTP PAC081-113-131945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1140 AM EDT MON MAY 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SULLIVAN COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA LYCOMING COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT. * AT 1133 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER THE REGION. RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ON TOP OF YESTERDAYS RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF AND WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING NEAR WILLIAMSPORT...MUNCY... PICTURE ROCKS...MUNCY VALLEY...BARBOURS...LAPORTE...RICKETS GLEN STATE PARK AND LINCOLN FALLS. 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. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT $$ LAT...LON 4151 7628 4121 7664 4113 7716 4150 7753 SD/BL
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 24 min |
| May 13, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 60 min |
| May 13, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 56 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.