Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Oct 12, 2005, 2:15 AM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 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 12, 2005, 2:15 AM EDT (06:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2005, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Warren County, NJ, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:16 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 120614
FFWPHI
NJC041-PAC089-095-121200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
215 AM EDT WED OCT 12 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY
* UNTIL 800 AM EDT
* AT 210 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT AN INCH OR TWO OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN IN MUCH OF WARREN
COUNTY AND MONROE COUNTY, AS WELL AS IN THE EXTREME EASTERN PART
OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE EXPECTED DURING
THE REMAINDER OF THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. THE HEAVY RAIN FALLING ON
THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS, AS WELL AS HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES.
ADDITIONALLY, COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS,
STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
LAT...LON 4057 7535 4091 7480 4122 7518 4114 7559
4084 7546 4077 7557
$$
IOVINO1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KPHI 120849
FFSPHI
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
450 AM EDT WED OCT 12 2005
NJC041-PAC089-095-121200-
WARREN NJ-NORTHAMPTON PA-MONROE PA-
450 AM EDT WED OCT 12 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 AM EDT FOR MONROE...
NORTHAMPTON AND WARREN COUNTIES...
AT 445 AM, NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ONE
TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN THROUGHOUT MUCH OF WARREN
COUNTY AND MONROE COUNTY, AS WELL AS IN THE EASTERN PART OF
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY DURING THE NIGHT. AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN MAY
FALL BY 800 AM. AS A RESULT, THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES.
THE HEAVY RAIN FALLING ON THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL LIKELY
RESULT IN FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, AS WELL AS HIGHWAYS
AND UNDERPASSES MAKING FOR A DIFFICULT MORNING COMMUTE. DO NOT
DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS, THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK
IT IS.
LAT...LON 4057 7535 4091 7480 4122 7518 4114 7559
4084 7546 4077 7557
$$
IOVINOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 5 hr |
| Oct 12, 5:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 6:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 3 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.