Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 3:35 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1996, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 4:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Albrightsville, PA | |
| Jun 22, 4:15 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Tobyhanna, PA | |
| Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Hail 3 | Southern, PA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 221936 SVRPHL PAC025-089-222020- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 335 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 420 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...CARBON COUNTY ...MONROE COUNTY AT 330 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NWS DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF EAST SIDE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM MAY AFFECT THE FOLLOWING NEARBY AREAS... EAST SIDE... BLAKESLEE... LAKE HARMONY... LONG POND... AND LITTLE GAP. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN IT IS SAFE AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORT ON TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR... DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe | 2 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.