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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2006, 3:52 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. 4 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 27, 2006, 3:52 PM EDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2006, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 27, 5:24 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 10 Ne Jim Thorpe, PA | BRIDGE DAMAGE REPORTED ON ROUTE 534 IN KIDDER TOWNSHIP. FLOODED ROADS REPORTED AROUND KIDDER TOWNSHIP. |
| Jun 27, 5:24 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Ne Jim Thorpe, PA | FLOODED ROADS REPORTED IN PENN FOREST TOWNSHIP. |
| Jun 27, 5:24 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 Ne Jim Thorpe, PA | 113 4-H CAMPERS WERE EVACUATED IN HICKORY RUN STATE PARK DUE TO FLOODING. |
| Jun 27, 5:24 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Jim Thorpe, PA | SEVERE FLOODING IN JIM THORPE. |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 271954 FFWPHI PAC025-272245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 352 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 346 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED ROAD FLOODING WAS ALREADY OCCURRING IN JIM THORPE. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO JIM THORPE...WEATHERLY...BEAVER MEADOWS...AND SUMMIT HILL. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4076 7577 4083 7552 4105 7562 4091 7598 $$ MPD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and 1 more | 26 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:02 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Delaware, Philadelphia | 23 hr |
| Jun 27, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 115 min |
| Jun 27, 4:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 114 min |
| Jun 27, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 3 hr |
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.