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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 9, 2005Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2005, 3:13 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 9, 2005, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2005, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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
Jun 9, 3:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Sw Stroudsburg, PA	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN SNYDERSVILLE WITH ROADS BLOCKED.
Jun 9, 3:20 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	3 Sw Stroudsburg, PA	PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL IN SNYDERSVILLE. FREQUENT LIGHTNING REPORTED WITH SOME POWER OUTAGES.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 829 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 091914
SVRPHI
PAC089-092000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0041.050609T1913Z-050609T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
313 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 312 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
  BRODHEADSVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EAST STROUDSBURG BY 345 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4110 7499 4110 7499 4125 7514 4116 7517
      4115 7510 4108 7503 4108 7498 4103 7505
      4101 7511 4086 7531 4083 7543 4090 7552
      4123 7519 4125 7512

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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.