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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 6, 2005Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 1:48 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 min. 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, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2005, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carbon County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 6, 9:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 061749
SVRPHI
PAC025-061845-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0027.050606T1748Z-050606T1845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
148 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 145 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12
  MILES WEST OF NESQUEHONING...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF
  WILKES-BARRE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NESQUEHONING BY 220 PM EDT
  WEATHERLY BY 225 PM EDT
  JIM THORPE AND WHITE HAVEN BY 235 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4105 7595 4081 7613 4077 7574 4112 7570

$$

KRUZDLO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 3:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	55 min

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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.