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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 13, 2005Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2005, 3:44 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 13, 2005, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
46 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), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2005-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 740 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2005-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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 131944
SVRPHI
PAC025-132030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0081.050713T1944Z-050713T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
344 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 339 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 NEAR
  WEATHERLY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF WILKES-BARRE...AND MOVING
  SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WEATHERLY BY 350 PM EDT
  JIM THORPE AND PALMERTON BY 350 PM EDT
  LEHIGHTON BY 355 PM EDT
  NESQUEHONING BY 405 PM EDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4106 7562 4109 7572 4089 7596 4076 7579
      4082 7551

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe49 min
Jul 13, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon40 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.