Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Frost Advisories in 2005
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at Oct 23, 2005, 4:22 AM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey; Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 23, 2005, 9:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2005, 4:22 AM EDT (08:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 23, 2005, 9:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2005, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:23 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 680 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KPHI 230822 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 422 AM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-232100- /X.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0001.051024T0100Z-051024T0800Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 422 AM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT. A WEAK AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER AND ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. THIS WILL ALLOW DRIER AIR TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION AND BY TONIGHT, SKIES SHOULD BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY. WINDS WILL ALSO BE LIGHT AND VARIABLE TONIGHT. THIS COMBINATION WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO DROP TO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30S AND THEREBY ALLOW SCATTERED FROST TO FORM. THIS IS LATE FOR THE FIRST FROST OF THE SEASON, NORMALLY IT OCCURS DURING THE BEGINNING OF OCTOBER IN THE POCONOS AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$ RNS
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KPHI 231930 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 PM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-241100- /X.EXT.KPHI.FR.Y.0001.051024T0600Z-051024T1100Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 330 PM EDT SUN OCT 23 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY EXTENDED FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM EDT MONDAY... A WEAK AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. THE DRY AIR IN PLACE OVER THE REGION AND THE LIGHT WINDS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET. LOW TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS THE THREE COUNTY REGION TONIGHT AND SCATTERED FROST IS EXPECTED TO FORM. THIS IS LATE FOR THE FIRST FROST OF THE SEASON, NORMALLY IT OCCURS DURING THE BEGINNING OF OCTOBER IN THE POCONOS AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$
000 WWUS71 KPHI 240722 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 322 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 DEZ003-NJZ013-020>023-027-242100- /X.NEW.KPHI.WI.Y.0002.051025T0400Z-051025T2200Z/ INLAND SUSSEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...FREEHOLD...JACKSON... MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE... WHARTON STATE FOREST 322 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 PM EDT TUESDAY... A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR STRONG WINDS LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY OVER EASTERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN DELAWARE - STRONG WINDS COULD TOPPLE SOME TREES. HURRICANE WILMA, MOVING NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN FLORIDA TODAY, WILL ACCELERATE AS IT MOVES A COUPLE OF HUNDRED MILES OFF THE EAST COAST TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. STRONG NORTHEAST TO NORTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT AND THEN CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY IN RESPONSE TO A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE STORM. WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH SUSTAINED AND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF THE STRONG WINDS AND WET GROUNDS MAY CAUSE SOME WEAKLY ROOTED TREES TO FALL LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT LOCALIZED POWER OUTAGES MAY RESULT. FOR SAFETY SAKE, AVOID TREES THAT LOOK WEAK, DEAD, OR HAVE EXPOSED ROOTS OR LARGE DEAD BRANCHES. PARK CARS AWAY FROM ANY TREES THAT SEEM WEAK AS WELL. IF POWER LINES ARE DOWNED, STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM AND NOTIFY EMERGENCY AUTHORITIES. AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS, BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS OR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS. $$ NJZ001-PAZ054-055-241100- /X.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-051024T1100Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 322 AM EDT MON OCT 24 2005 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED TO AROUND FREEZING AND SHOULD REMAIN AROUND FREEZING BEFORE RISING LATER THIS MORNING. THIS IS LATE FOR THE FIRST FROST OF THE SEASON... NORMALLY IT OCCURS DURING THE BEGINNING OF OCTOBER IN THE POCONOS AND NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY. A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. $$ RNS
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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.