Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this red flag warning at Mar 24, 2016, 5:49 PM EDT for 17 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 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 24, 2016, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
Counties Adams County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Elk County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Perry County, PA, Somerset County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
762 WWUS81 KCTP 242149 RFWCTP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 549 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... PAZ010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-045-056-063-064-250000- /O.NEW.KCTP.FW.W.0001.160324T2149Z-160325T0000Z/ ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD-NORTHERN CENTRE- SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET- BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-PERRY-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS- 549 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...THE LAUGEL HIGHLANDS NORTHWARD THROUGH THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. * WINDS...SOUTHERLY 12-15MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS 25 TO 30MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 8PM THIS EVENING. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...25 TO 29%. * IMPACTS...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR RAPID AND ERRATIC SPREAD OF WILD FIRES...OR FOR PRESCRIBED BURNS TO GET OUT OF CONTROL. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR. && $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CTP (ALL LOWER CASE)
1 follow-up statement
207 WWUS81 KCTP 250006 RFWCTP URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 806 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING HAS EXPIRED... PAZ010>012-017>019-024>028-033>036-045-056-063-064-250115- /O.EXP.KCTP.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160325T0000Z/ ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD-NORTHERN CENTRE- SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN-JUNIATA-SOMERSET- BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-PERRY-CUMBERLAND-ADAMS- 806 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 ...THE RED FLAG WARNING THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA HAS EXPIRED... RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS THE AFFECTED REGION HAVE RISEN ABOVE THIRTY (30) PERCENT...AND ARE FORECAST TO REMAIN ABOVE THIS THRESHOLD OVERNIGHT AND THROUGH FRIDAY. $$ FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM NOAA/NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VISIT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CTP (ALL LOWER CASE)
Nearby
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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.