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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 20065 counties in Pennsylvania; Hunterdon County, Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2006, 4:45 AM EDT for 5 counties in Pennsylvania; Hunterdon County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 3 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, 4:45 AM EDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2006, 7:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bucks County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:47 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 280846
FFWPHI
NJC019-041-PAC017-077-091-095-101-281145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
  NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
  HUNTERDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY
  WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY
  BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
  PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA   

* UNTIL 745 AM EDT

* AT 440 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HEAVY RAIN     
  OVER THE AREA. WITH THE ALREADY VERY WET CONDITIONS, FLASH         
  FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY WHERE THE HEAVIEST    
  RAIN HAPPENS TO FALL.

LAT...LON 4080 7485 4078 7489 4066 7478 4042 7479
      4037 7487 4035 7485 4034 7493 4022 7480
      4017 7480 3997 7521 4028 7559 4039 7558
      4043 7553 4052 7556 4069 7584 4079 7559
      4086 7531 4104 7498

$$

JJM

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, 12:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICarbon4 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, 3:04 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementPHIDelaware, Philadelphia54 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 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.