Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 1:56 PM EDT for Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2005, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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 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 |
| Jun 6, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 WUUS51 KPHI 061756 SVRPHI PAC089-095-061900- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0028.050606T1756Z-050606T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 156 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 153 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WIND GAP...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EAST BANGOR BY 245 PM EDT LAT...LON 4088 7542 4079 7528 4084 7514 4097 7524 $$ KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 57 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2005Every severe thunderstorm 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.