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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS State College, PA

June 1, 2003Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2003, 1:50 AM EDT for Schuylkill 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: Jun 1, 2003, 1:50 AM EDT (05:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 4:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Area: Whole counties

County Schuylkill County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KCTP 010556
FFWCTP
PAC107-010845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
150 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SCHUYLKILL COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 445 AM EDT.

* AT 145 AM...AN AUTOMATED GAGE AT LANDINGSVILLE ALONG THE 
SCHUYLKILL RIVER INDICATES SHARP WATER LEVEL RISES HAVE OCCURRED 
OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS.  THE LATEST READING HAVE EXCEDED PUBLISHED 
FLOOD STAGES FOR THIS POINT...AND THE SHARP RISES ARE IN RESPONSE TO 
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM SATURDAY EVENING WHERE BETWEEN 2 AND 3 
INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN PORTIONS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW MODERATE 
RAINFALL TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL SCHUYLKILL 
COUNTY...AND CONTINUED RISES ARE LIKELY TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN 
THESE AREAS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO 
RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

$$

LAT...LON 4073 7605 4065 7626 4004 7593 4016 7562

DEVOIR

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCTP 010846
FFSCTP
PAC107-011045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
444 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2003


...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SCHUYLKILL COUNTY...

AT 440 AM EDT... A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS CONTINUED TO PRODUCE MODERATE 
RAINFALL OVER THE LANDINGVILLE AREA.  AUTOMATED STREAM GAGE REPORTS 
INDICATE THAT THE LANDINGVILLE GAGE WILL CREST NEAR 10.25 
FEET...MORE THAN TWO FEET ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AT THAT POINT.  NO OTHER 
POINTS ON THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER HAVE REACHED CAUTION STAGE AT THE 
PRESENT TIME.

PERSONS TRAVELING THROUGH THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING AREA SHOULD BE 
ALERT FOR STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS. 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 4068 7618 4058 7613 4060 7604 4069 7610

DEVOIR

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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.