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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2003, 10:03 PM EDT for McKean 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 12, 2003, 10:03 PM EDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2003, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McKean County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1495 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 130205 FFWCTP PAC083-130400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1003 PM EDT TUE AUG 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCKEAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT. * AT 1000 PM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED MANY ROADS IN AND AROUND ELDRED WERE CLOSED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN STATE COLLEGE INDICATED SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN ELDRED AND SURROUNDING AREAS OF EXTREME NORTHEAST MCKEAN COUNTY. 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. $$ LAT...LON 4200 7821 4183 7822 4187 7845 4203 7854 MARTIN/DEVOIR
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KCTP 130254 FFSCTP PAC083-130415- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1050 PM EDT TUE AUG 12 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MCKEAN COUNTY... AT 1045 PM...RAIN HAS ENDED ACROSS MCKEAN COUNTY. HOWEVER... SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY...ESPECIALLY NEAR ELDRED. MANY SECONDARY ROADS ARE CLOSED...ALONG WITH 3 STATE ROUTES. ONE FIRE STATION IS UNDER WATER. USE CAUTION IF TRAVELING OVERNIGHT. IT IS HARD TO SEE FLOODED AREAS AT NIGHT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ LAT...LON 4182 7879 4168 7862 4192 7828 4194 7866 MARTIN/DEVOIR
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 114 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.