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River Flood Warning 23, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this river flood warning at Mar 5, 2008, 4:05 PM EST for Lancaster County, York County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Mar 6, 2008, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2008, 4:05 PM EST (21:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2008, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2008, 11:14 AM EST
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Lancaster County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Susquehanna River at Marietta (MRTP1). The gauge peaked at 50.62 ft at Mar 6, 2008, 2:00 PM EST.
- Action stage
- 44 ft
- Minor stage
- 49 ft
- Moderate stage
- 52 ft
- Major stage
- 54 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01576000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river flood warning 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 river flood warning went out at Mar 5, 1:19 PM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 1:19 PM EST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 4, 11:15 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Union | 29 hr |
| Mar 4, 11:15 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 43 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 32 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Snyder, Union | 32 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 16 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:01 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 15 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 49 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 56 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Perry | 18 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 50 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, York | 17 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:06 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:06 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 31 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:06 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland | 31 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin | 11 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Juniata, Lancaster, Northumberland, Perry and 2 more | 28 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.