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River Flood Warning 7, NWS State College, PA
NWS State College, PA issued this river flood warning at Apr 15, 2019, 5:23 PM EDT for Dauphin County, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Apr 15, 2019, 7:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2019, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2019, 7:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2019, 5:18 AM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS State College, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- Minor
Counties Dauphin County, PA, Lebanon County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The river
Written for the forecast point Swatara Creek near Hershey (HERP1). The gauge peaked at 7.15 ft at Apr 16, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT.
- Action stage
- 6 ft
- Minor stage
- 7 ft
- Moderate stage
- 10 ft
- Major stage
- 14 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01573560, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Apr 15, 4:47 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 4:47 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS State College, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 14, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Warren | 57 min |
| Apr 14, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean, Warren | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 8:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Warren | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Elk, McKean | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter | 56 min |
| Apr 14, 9:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield, Somerset | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 9:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield | 42 min |
| Apr 14, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fulton, Somerset | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lycoming | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 10:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 10:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CTP | Columbia, Dauphin, Lebanon, Northumberland, Schuylkill | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clearfield | 48 min |
| Apr 14, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter, Tioga | 55 min |
| Apr 14, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair, Centre, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon and 1 more | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 11:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Clinton, Lycoming | 94 min |
| Apr 14, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Centre, Clinton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lycoming, Mifflin and 2 more | 86 min |
| Apr 14, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Perry | 49 min |
| Apr 14, 11:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Tioga | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 12:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Northumberland, Sullivan | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 1:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Adams, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 53 min |
| Apr 15, 2:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster, York | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 2:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CTP | Lancaster | 32 min |
| Apr 15, 3:29 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CTP | Lebanon, Schuylkill | 26 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:49 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Dauphin and 11 more | 16 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.