Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT for Berks 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
- Jun 6, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 061931 FFWPHI PAC011-062230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF READING * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 330 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WERNERSVILLE...READING AND MOHNTON. AT 330 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIVE RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF BERKS COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR TWO ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...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 4048 7640 4016 7589 4044 7556 4066 7589 $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 55 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.