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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2005Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2005, 4:06 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 39 min. 3 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: Jul 27, 2005, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2005, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 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), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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
Jul 27, 4:10 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	Pocono Pines, PA	MARBLE TO DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED.
Jul 27, 4:10 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	Pocono Pines, PA	MARBLE TO DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
Jul 27, 4:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	10 Ne Stroudsburg, PA	WIRES AND TREES KNOCKED DOWN IN THE BUSHKILL AREA.

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
Jul 27, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 1105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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 272006
SVRPHI
PAC089-272045-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0083.050727T2006Z-050727T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
406 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 404 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MOUNTAINHOME...OR ABOUT 33 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN MONROE COUNTY AT 420 PM EDT

HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM.


LAT...LON 4113 7556 4099 7549 4108 7495 4125 7484

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	48 min
Jul 27, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	45 min
Jul 27, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	43 min
Jul 27, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	58 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Philadelphia	45 min
Jul 27, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	56 min
Jul 27, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery	35 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.