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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 27, 2006Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2006, 8:43 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. 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: Jun 27, 2006, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2006, 11:45 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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, 10:00 PM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Jim Thorpe, PA	NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREAMS FLOODING, STREET FLOODING AND EVACUATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTY.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 280043
FFWPHI
PAC025-280345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
843 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 1145 PM EDT

* AT 835 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  ADDITIONAL RAINFALL THAT LIKELY WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLASH
  FLOODING OVER PARTS OF CARBON COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  WEATHERLY...LANSFORD...LEHIGHTON AND JIM THORPE.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 4079 7576 4083 7552 4110 7565 4090 7595

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 9:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	2 hr
Jun 27, 9:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monroe	114 min
Jun 27, 10:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	6 hr
Jun 28, 12:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Carbon	4 hr
Jun 28, 2:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	2 hr
Jun 28, 2:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia	119 min
Jun 28, 3:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	4 hr
Jun 28, 4:45 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia	3 hr
Jun 28, 3:04 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	54 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006 Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.