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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2005Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2005, 6:40 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2005, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 6:40 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGJenkintown, PATREES AND WIRES DOWN.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 27, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 2005-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1105 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2005-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
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 272241
SVRPHI
PAC091-272315-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0094.050727T2240Z-050727T2315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 636 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE       
  THUNDERSTORM WITH WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH IN ROXBOROUGH IN            
  PHILADELHIA COUNTY.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WILLOW GROVE AND ROCKLEDGE BY 650 PM EDT

WIND GUSTS OVER 70 MPH...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM.

LAT...LON 4013 7528 4005 7512 4013 7503 4019 7512

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe39 min
Jul 27, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks48 min
Jul 27, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Lehigh, Northampton45 min
Jul 27, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks43 min
Jul 27, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester, Montgomery58 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIPhiladelphia45 min
Jul 27, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks56 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.