Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2003, 5:10 PM EDT for Monroe 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
- Aug 16, 2003, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 162119 FFWPHI PAC089-162315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 510 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT. * AT 508 PM EDT...SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING CONTINUING FROM EARLIER HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT UP TO EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNING AREA. WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES ARE ALSO REPORTED. THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED IN THIS AREA. 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. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL ALSO TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4105 7532 4090 7527 4083 7546 4097 7550 SZATKOWSKI
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KPHI 162148 FFSPHI PAC089-162315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 547 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 ..A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOTTERS REPORT MULTIPLE STREAMS ARE OVERFLOWING IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MONROE COUNTY. POWER HAS ALSO BEEN DISRUPTED AND BASEMENTS HAVE BEEN FLOODED. SPECIFICALLY...BURGER HOLLOW ROAD NEAR HIGHWAY 209 IS IMPASSABLE. ROUTE 115 IN EFFORT NEAR HIGHWAY 209 IS ALSO CLOSED. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEAVY RAIN HAVE MOVED TO THE SOUTH AND EAST OF THIS AREA, BUT IT WILL STILL TAKE TIME FOR THE FLOOD WATERS TO RECEDE. SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE THAT OVER SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THIS AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. REPEATING...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 715 PM. $$ KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 2:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 49 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.