Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2002, 3:59 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2002, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 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 20:01 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
680
WUUS51 KPHI 231959
SVRPHI
PAC089-232100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
357 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT.
* AT 353 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POCONO PINES...MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
POCONO PINES AT 405 PM.
MOUNT POCONO AT 410 PM.
MOUNTAINHOME AT 415 PM.
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 700 PM TUESDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
$$
LAT...LON 4114 7561 4101 7547 4093 7550 4111 7514
4123 7521 4121 7548
KRUZDLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 3:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 54 min |
| Jul 23, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 56 min |
| Jul 23, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 55 min |
| Jul 23, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 66 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.