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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 8, 2005Delaware County, Montgomery County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2005, 7:10 PM EDT for Delaware County, Montgomery County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; Gloucester County, New Jersey. 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
Oct 8, 2005, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 2005, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gloucester County, NJ, Delaware County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2005-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2005-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
451 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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 082312
FFWPHI
NJC015-PAC045-091-101-090215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
710 PM EDT SAT OCT 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
  SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA     
  PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA   
  WESTERN AND CENTRAL GLOUCESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED RAINFALL RATES
  EXCEEDING 2 INCHES AN HOUR OVER THE WARNED AREA. 

THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM ADVISORY DUE TO THE EXCESSIVELY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES.

DO NOT DRIVE CARS AROUND BARRICADES OR THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. TURN 
AROUND DONT DROWN. 

LAT...LON 3973 7534 3966 7521 3988 7517 4012 7506
      4012 7521

$$

RNS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 5:10 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Chester, Montgomery6 hr
Oct 8, 6:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBucks, Lehigh, Northampton6 hr
Oct 8, 7:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks30 min
Oct 8, 7:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks4 hr
Oct 8, 7:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren6 hr
Oct 8, 7:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMercer, Morris, Somerset6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2005Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.