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Flood Watch 7, NWS State College, PA

May 11, 200815 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flood watch at May 11, 2008, 4:17 AM EDT for 15 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 12, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2008, 4:17 AM EDT (08:17 UTC)
In effect from: May 12, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired: May 12, 2008, 12:28 PM EDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Flood severity: None

Counties Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Somerset County, PA, York County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at May 11, 4:02 AM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 4:02 AM EDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 3:23 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Somerset	5 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2008 Every flood watch in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.