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Areal Flood Warning 7, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this areal flood warning at Mar 11, 2011, 2:26 AM EST for 17 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 8 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 11, 2011, 2:26 AM EST (07:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2011, 10:15 AM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Union County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 11, 2:07 AM EST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 2:07 AM EST, 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 207 AM EST FRI MAR 11 2011 .SYNOPSIS... SURFACE LOW PRESSURE OVER LAKE ONTARIO AND A TRAILING UPPER LOW LIFTING NORTH FROM NEAR YOUNGSTOWN OHIO WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH INTO SOUTHERN ONTARIO TODAY AND TONIGHT. COLDER AIR WRAPPING IN BEHIND THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING SNOW TO WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND PORTIONS OF THE ALLEGHENY PLATEAU TODAY. AN OCCLUDED FRONT WILL SWEEP THE PLUME OF HEAVY RAINS OUT OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EARLY THIS MORNING. A FAST MOVING TROUGH WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE REGION ON SATURDAY...WHICH SHOULD BRING SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS TO THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO SLOWLY MODERATE TOWARD NORMAL BY MID-WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON/... OCCLUDED FRONT HAS PUSHED EAST TO NEAR A KIPT TO KMUI LINE AT 06Z AND WILL PUSH THE STEADIER HEAVIER RAINS OUT OF THE CWA DURING THE NEXT 2-3 HOURS. LINGERING RAIN SHOWERS ACROSS THE CENTRAL RIDGE AND VALLEY REGION WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SCATTERED WET SNOW SHOWERS BY DAYBREAK. POTENT VORT LOBE LIFTING NWD JUST AHEAD OF AN UPPER LOW OVER EASTERN OHIO WILL BRING A SEVERAL HOUR PERIOD OF SNOW TO THE LAUREL HIGHLANDS AND NORTHWEST MTNS. A FEW INCHES OF SNOW WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE LAURELS...AND ALSO NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF KBFD. THINK WARREN COUNTY WILL SEE ENOUGH OF A ONE...TWO PUNCH FROM THE UPPER TROUGH...THEN A DEEP/WELL ALIGNED WESTERLY FLOW OF COLDER AIR ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO WARRANT A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THERE UNTIL 03Z SAT. ACCUMS WILL RANGE FROM ABOUT 3 INCHES IN THE EAST...TO 5 OR 6 INCHES IN THE SNOWBELT TO THE WEST OF THE CITY OF WARREN. FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE TO COVER MOST OF THE REGION...WITH MANY REPORTS OF FLOODING ALONG THE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. 10 LARGER CREEK/RIVER FLOOD POINTS ARE CURRENTLY OVER FLOOD STAGE...AND THE REST ARE STILL RISING WITH A TOTAL OF 19 CREEK/RIVER WARNINGS IN EFFECT. EXPECT A FEW OF THE SMALLER POINTS TO BEGIN TO RECEDE EARLY THIS MORNING...BUT MOST WILL EITHER CONTINUE TO RISE OR ONLY CREST. THE LARGER POINTS WILL STILL BE RISING...THOUGH...AND FLOODING ALMOST CERTAIN AT MANY OF THOSE GAUGES. && .SHORT TERM /1 PM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH 6 AM SATURDAY/... CYCLONIC FLOW AND COOL TEMPS IN MID-LEVELS WILL SUPPORT OCCASIONAL SNOW SHOWERS TODAY ACROSS THE THE FAR WESTERN SLOPES OF THE CWA...WITH JUST SOME PASSING FLURRIES/SPRINKLES FURTHER TO THE EAST. MOST AREAS SHOULD NOT MEASURE IN THE CENTRAL/SOUTH AND EAST. OUTSIDE THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE NORTH AND WEST WHERE UP TO A FEW INCHES OF ADDITIONAL SNOW MAY FALL...MOST AREAS WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE 30S TO LOWER 40S. TEMPS STILL GET INTO THE U40S IN THE SE THANKS TO MORE SS AND DOWNSLOPE WARMING. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... UNSETTLED WEATHER OVER WEEKEND WITH CYCLONIC FLOW AND REINFORCING WAVE AND COLD AIR. BUT HIGH PRESSURE MONDAY AND TUESDAY WILL USHER IN DRIER A WORK WEEK. MOST OF THE COMING WEEK SHOULD BE ON THE DRY SIDE WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION LATE IN THE WEEK. FOR THE WEEKEND...A REINFORCING SHORT-WAVE DROPS INTO THE MEAN TROUGH OVER THE REGION LATE SATURDAY. THIS SHOULD KEEP MOSTLY CLOUDY COOL CONDITIONS OVER THE REGION WITH MODEST INCREASED CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN NORTHERN AREAS AND LAURELS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY. THERE COULD BE A PERIOD OF SNOW LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY WITH MAINLY LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS...IF ANY. THIS SNOW COULD GET AS FAR EAST AS WILLIAMSPORT-STATE COLLEGE AND ALTOONA BUT SHORT-LIVED PERIOD OF LIGHT SNOW OF NO CONSEQUENCE IF IT OCCURS. THE SREF IS LESS AGGRESSIVE AND NO LONGER HINTS OF THIS SYSTEM GETTING TOO FAR SOUTH INTO PA. THE COMING WORK WEEK....HIGH PRESSURE FINALLY MOVES OVER THE REGION MONDAY WHICH SHOULD HELP CLEAR THINGS OUT AND PUT AN END TO THE SHOWERY REGIME. THIS HIGH PRESSURE RETREATS TO THE EAST TUESDAY AND SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW SHOULD SLOWLY MODERATE TEMPERATURES LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. LATE IN THE WEEK...A FRONTAL SYSTEM LATE IN THE WEEK COULD BRING SOME MOISTURE AND THE POTENTIAL FOR RAIN INTO THE REGION LATE THURSDAY OR FRIDAY. CURRENT GEFS WOULD FAVOR CHANCE RAIN FRIDAY. BUT TIMING IS UNCERTAIN. && .AVIATION /07Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... LOW PRES INVOF LAKE ONTARIO WITH TRAILING OCCLD FNT/WIND SHIFT ALONG IPT-MDT LINE AT 06Z. MOD TO HVY RNFL WILL CONT E OF THIS LINE THROUGH 12Z. COLD AIR WRAPPING AROUND THE BACKSIDE OF THE SYS WILL BRING SNOW AND IFR CONDS AT BFD/JST. IMPROVING CONDS ARE EXPECTED TO THE EAST OF THE MTNS THRU THE PD. WSWLY WIND GUSTS 20-25KTS. A WEAK TROUGH WILL SWING THROUGH THE AREA LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY WHICH COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND OCNL -SHSN OVER THE NW MTNS. OTHERWISE EXPECT MAINLY VFR CONDS TO PREVAIL INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS HIGH PRES ARRIVES FROM THE GRT LKS. OUTLOOK... SAT-SUN...MVFR/IFR WEST WITH SCT -SHSN. VFR CENTRAL AND EAST. MON-TUE...VFR. NO SIG WX. && .CTP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR PAZ004. && SYNOPSIS...LAMBERT/STEINBUGL NEAR TERM...DANGELO/LAMBERT SHORT TERM...LAMBERT LONG TERM...GRUMM AVIATION...STEINBUGL
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 11, 1:23 AM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 10, 9:05 PM EST, 5 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
905 PM EST THU MAR 10 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0858 PM FLOOD TREMONT 40.63N 76.39W
03/10/2011 SCHUYLKILL PA EMERGENCY MNGR
WATER ACROSS PARTS OF ROUTE 209. STREAMS NEAR OR OVER
BANKFULL COUNTYWIDE.
&&
EVENT NUMBER CTP1100007
EVANEGOThe office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 7:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 7:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 65 min |
| Mar 10, 8:06 PM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 4 days |
| Mar 11, 12:22 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Blair, Huntingdon | 10 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:01 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield, Elk, McKean, Somerset, Warren | 21 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:12 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton | 20 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:27 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 35 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:27 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Northumberland, Union | 37 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:52 AM EST | Areal Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton, Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lycoming and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 7:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 27 hr |
| Mar 11, 7:35 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Northumberland, Union | 27 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:02 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 6 hr |
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.