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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 8, 2005Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 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: Oct 8, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Berks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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 082329
FFWPHI
PAC011-090000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF READING

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 723 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED OVER PARTS OF EASTERN 
  BERKS COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KUTZTOWN
  AND FLEETWOOD.

RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE UP TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER 
EASTERN BERKS COUNTY...AND THE RAIN IS CONTINUING. 

FLOODING IS REPORTED OR EXPECTED ALONG HAY CREEK...MANATAWNY CREEK 
...ALLEGHENY CREEK...MONOCACY CREEK...AND ALONG THE SCHUYLKILL 
RIVER.  PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE 
IF NECESSARY.

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.

LAT...LON 4015 7589 4043 7555 4056 7573 4027 7608

$$

AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 5:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Montgomery	6 hr
Oct 8, 6:30 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	6 hr
Oct 8, 7:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	3 hr
Oct 8, 7:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	4 hr

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.