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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2004Bucks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2004, 7:21 PM EDT for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 114 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2004, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bucks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2004-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 112 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2004-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 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 
WGUS51 KPHI 282323
FFWPHI
PAC017-290115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
721 PM EDT WED JUL 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN 
  SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING ALONG THE WEST BRANCH OF THE
  NESHAMINY CREEK IN WEST CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY. 


LAT...LON 4027 7523 4017 7505 4025 7486 4041 7509

$$
MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 9:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Philadelphia38 min
Jul 27, 9:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Philadelphia36 min
Jul 27, 10:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia4 hr
Jul 28, 2:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia3 hr
Jul 28, 7:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMontgomery2 hr
Jul 28, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks50 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.