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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 14, 2005Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 3:41 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 2005, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 14, 3:55 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG5 E Mount Pocono, PATREES DOWN IN PRICE AND PARADISE TOWNSHIP.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 14, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1871 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
1871 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 141940
SVRPHI
PAC089-142015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0124.050814T1941Z-050814T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
341 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 338 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  MOUNT POCONO...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MOUNTAINHOME BY 350 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4116 7549 4098 7543 4105 7508 4123 7519

$$

EBERWINE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Montgomery44 min
Aug 14, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester50 min
Aug 14, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Monroe46 min
Aug 14, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery23 min
Aug 14, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Monroe, Northampton33 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.