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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 26, 1995Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1995, 1:32 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1995, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 1995-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 261731
FFWPHL
PAC089-261830-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
132 PM EDT MON JUN 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWESTWARD
THROUGH SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN
EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM...AND THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 P
 
 
 
HEAVY RAINS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
STREAMS AND UNDERPASSES VERY QUICKLY.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR CAR INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER
THAN YOU THINK.  IF CAUGHT IN RISING WATERS...ABANDON YOUR CAR
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 1:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe58 min
Jun 26, 7:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks2 hr

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.