Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2004, 8:39 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 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 2, 2004, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2004, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 030044 FFWPHI PAC089-030345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 839 PM EDT MON AUG 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 835 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF MOUNTAINHOME...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON...DRIFTING EAST AT 5 MPH OR LESS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 4120 7519 4125 7549 4116 7549 4110 7522 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KPHI 030155 FFSPHI PAC089-030215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 952 PM EDT MON AUG 2 2004 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR... NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE FOR A SHORT TIME PERIOD...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$
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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.