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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 1, 2004Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2004, 7:30 AM EDT for Philadelphia 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 2004, 7:30 AM EDT (11:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2004, 9:30 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 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 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 00:00Z on 2004-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 415 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 00:00Z on 2004-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 011130
FFWPHI
PAC101-011330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
730 AM EDT SUN AUG 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

* UNTIL 930 AM EDT

* AT 727 AM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS INDICATED AS ABOUT TO OCCUR
  NEAR WISSAHICKON CREEK AND FRANKFORD CREEK IN PHILADELPHIA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL 
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS AROUND MUCH OF THE
CITY THIS MORNING.

LAT...LON 4000 7527 3990 7521 4007 7499 4008 7506

$$
IOVINO/MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 7:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMontgomery2 hr
Aug 1, 7:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBucks2 hr
Aug 1, 7:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIChester, Delaware115 min
Aug 1, 8:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMontgomery89 min
Aug 1, 9:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIChester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia2 hr
Aug 1, 10:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIDelaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia2 hr
Aug 1, 12:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIDelaware, Philadelphia4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.