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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2006, 9:35 PM EDT for Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2006, 9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2006, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lancaster County, PA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:30 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Lancaster, PA | WATER ACROSS RTE 741 IN LAMPETER |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KCTP 260136 FFWCTP PAC071-260730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 935 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 330 AM EDT * AT 930 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER LANCASTER COUNTY. LOCALIZED TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CAUSE FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO AKRON... COLUMBIA...EAST PETERSBURG...ELIZABETHTOWN...EPHRATA...LANCASTER... LEOLA...LITITZ...MANHEIM...MILLERSVILLE...MOUNT JOY...NEW HOLLAND AND WILLOW STREET. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR IN AN AUTOMOBILE. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN PLEASE REPORT FLOODING...HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2. LAT...LON 3972 7620 4015 7593 4031 7617 4014 7674 $$ FORECASTER: LA CORTE
The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 5 hr |
| Jun 25, 11:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 6 hr |
| Jun 26, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Somerset | 3 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.