Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 16, 2003Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 2:43 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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
Aug 16, 2003, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
47 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 18:46 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 nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 160 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 161843
SVRPHI
PAC089-161930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
242 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT.

* AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRODHEADSVILLE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRODHEADSVILLE AT 250 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.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY

THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.  DO NOT DRIVE INTO 
WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. 

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

$$

LAT...LON 4097 7552 4094 7556 4083 7548 4085 7538
          4089 7530

SZATKOWSKI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe55 min
Aug 16, 2:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe3 hr
Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Monroe49 min
Aug 16, 5:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe2 hr

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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.