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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2006Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2006, 3:55 AM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe 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, 3:55 AM EDT (07:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:58 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 280757
FFWPHI
PAC025-089-281200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
355 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
  MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 800 AM EDT

* AT 352 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  INDICATED POCKETS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IN CARBON
  AND MONROE COUNTIES, WITH MORE RAIN MOVING IN FROM THE SOUTH. 
  WITH THE ALREADY VERY WET CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE REGION,
  FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS OF HEAVIEST
  RAIN.


LAT...LON 4077 7577 4083 7543 4106 7502 4125 7516
      4124 7526 4119 7554 4090 7596

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Carbon	3 hr
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.