Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 4:23 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 22 min. 2 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 26, 2002, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Pocono Summit, PA | |
| Jun 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Mt Pocono, 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 262023 SVRPHI PAC089-262045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 422 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 419 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...3 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RURAL EASTERN MONROE COUNTY HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY. $$ LAT...LON 4120 7550 4095 7546 4102 7511 4122 7523 KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 2:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 114 min |
| Jun 26, 4:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.