Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Watches in 2014
Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this flash flood watch at Jul 14, 2014, 3:42 AM EDT for 9 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jul 14, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2014, 3:42 AM EDT (07:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 14, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2014, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Adams County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Perry County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, York County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 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 Jul 14, 1:36 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:36 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 10:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 13, 10:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, York | 80 min |
| Jul 13, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Schuylkill | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 8:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, York | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 12:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon, Mifflin | 76 min |
| Jul 14, 1:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Somerset | 111 min |
| Jul 14, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Huntingdon | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Perry | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Dauphin | 36 min |
| Jul 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lebanon | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster, York | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.