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Flash Flood Watch 10, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood watch at Jun 24, 2014, 12:42 PM EDT for 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jun 24, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2014, 12:42 PM EDT (16:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 24, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2014, 6:36 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cameron County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 24, 11:36 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 11:36 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Warren | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 4:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 114 min |
| Jun 24, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | McKean | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Potter | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Potter, Tioga | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Fulton | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 7:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.