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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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.
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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 5 E Mount Pocono, PA | TREES 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Montgomery | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe, Northampton | 33 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.