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Flood Watch 2, NWS State College, PA

May 5, 200916 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this flood watch at May 5, 2009, 3:11 PM EDT for 16 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 6, 2009, 3:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2009, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
In effect from
May 6, 2009, 3:00 PM EDT
Expired
May 7, 2009, 3:04 AM 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, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Somerset County, PA, York County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 5, 3:04 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:04 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 10:54 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningCTPHuntingdon10 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2009Every flood watch in 2009

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.