Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2001, 6:58 PM EDT for Lehigh County, 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
- Jun 22, 2001, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lehigh County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 578 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 222300 FFWPHI PAC077-230100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 658 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT. * AT 657 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER LEHIGH COUNTY. ALTHOUGH RAINFALL RATES HAVE DECREASED...THE SATURATED GROUND WILL MAKE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFJORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4055 7539 4044 7550 4067 7583 4076 7563 GSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 12:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 23 min |
| Jun 22, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 47 min |
| Jun 22, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 3:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 6:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 117 min |
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.