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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2006Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2006, 12:03 AM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 2006, 12:03 AM EDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2006, 4:00 AM EDT
In force
4 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), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 280404
FFWPHI
PAC025-280800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1203 AM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 400 AM EDT

* AT 1154 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
  FLOODING WAS ONGOING AROUND THE COUNTY. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ALL LOCATIONS ABOUT THE COUNTY

ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL EXACERBATE ONGOING FLOODING...
AND ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF AN INCH IS POSSIBLE.  

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FROM CARBON COUNTY REPORTED NUMEROUS 
EVACUATIONS AROUND THE COUNTY.

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 4076 7580 4084 7552 4110 7567 4091 7596

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 8:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICarbon3 hr
Jun 27, 9:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHILehigh, Northampton2 hr
Jun 27, 9:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe114 min
Jun 27, 10:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks6 hr
Jun 28, 2:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIChester, Delaware2 hr
Jun 28, 2:31 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia119 min
Jun 28, 3:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICarbon, Monroe4 hr
Jun 28, 4:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia3 hr
Jun 28, 3:04 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementPHIDelaware, Philadelphia54 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.