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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this areal flood warning at Mar 10, 2011, 3:28 PM EST for Bedford County, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2011, 3:28 PM EST (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2011, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bedford County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Mar 10, 2:50 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 2:50 PM EST, 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 10, 5:20 AM EST, 10 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 520 AM EST THU MAR 10 2011 PAZ006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-111030- POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD-NORTHERN CENTRE- SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET- BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING-SULLIVAN- SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON-CUMBERLAND- ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 520 AM EST THU MAR 10 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PAZ004-005-111030- WARREN-MCKEAN- 520 AM EST THU MAR 10 2011 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV/STATECOLLEGE ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLOOD WATCH. PERIODS OF SNOW WILL FALL FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT...LIKELY ACCUMULATING A FEW INCHES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 10, 2:26 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
226 PM EST THU MAR 10 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 PM FLOOD FRANKSTOWN 40.44N 78.35W
03/10/2011 BLAIR PA TRAINED SPOTTER
JUNIATA RIVER IS OVER ITS BANK AND AFFECTING RESERVOIR
RD NEAR RT 22
&&
EVENT NUMBER CTP1100005
KREKELERThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia | 4 days |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Columbia, Montour, Northumberland | 4 days |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Centre, Snyder, Union | 49 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 63 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, York | 61 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 54 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 63 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 70 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 24 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 30 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 38 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:45 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 45 hr |
| Mar 10, 10:09 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 10, 10:42 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Juniata, Northumberland, Perry, Union | 64 hr |
| Mar 10, 11:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Juniata, Lancaster, Northumberland, Perry and 2 more | 3 days |
| Mar 10, 11:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 4 days |
| Mar 10, 1:09 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lebanon and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:29 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Perry | 27 hr |
| Mar 10, 2:49 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia, Juniata, Lebanon, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:31 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CTP | Adams, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Cumberland and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 5:11 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CTP | Cameron, Clinton, Columbia, Dauphin, Elk, Lancaster and 10 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:20 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria | 25 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2011Every areal flood warning in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.