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River Flood Warning 27, NWS State College, PA

March 12, 2010Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

NWS State College, PA issued this river flood warning at Mar 12, 2010, 10:30 PM EST for Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Mar 13, 2010, 9:34 PM EST. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2010, 10:30 PM EST (03:30 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 13, 2010, 9:34 PM EST
Expired: Mar 15, 2010, 3:05 AM EDT
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS State College, PA
Flood severity: Moderate

County Huntingdon County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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.

The river

Written for the forecast point Aughwick Creek at Shirleysburg (SLYP1).

Action stage: 8 ft
Minor stage: 10 ft
Moderate stage: 12 ft
Major stage: 20 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01564512, 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 12, 10:26 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 10:26 PM EST, 4 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
Mar 13, 5:59 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Bedford, Cambria, Franklin, Fulton, Somerset	12 hr
Mar 13, 10:09 AM EST	Wind Advisory	CTP	Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield and 23 more	12 hr
Mar 13, 11:48 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Adams, Huntingdon	12 hr
Mar 13, 12:15 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Blair	12 hr
Mar 13, 4:07 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York	8 hr
Mar 13, 4:12 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CTP	Blair, Huntingdon	29 hr
Mar 13, 4:51 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland and 11 more	7 hr
Mar 13, 4:58 PM EST	River Flood Warning	CTP	Blair, Huntingdon	24 hr
Mar 13, 5:41 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Bedford, Cambria, Franklin, Fulton, Somerset	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

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.