Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2006, 5:19 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 116 min. 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 1, 2006, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 012122 FFWPHI PAC025-012315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 519 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SUMMIT HILL...NESQUEHONING... LEHIGHTON...JIM THORPE * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WEISSPORT EAST AND WEATHERLY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER THE NESQUEHONING CREEK IN SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY. THESE AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FLOODING. NEVER DRIVE A VEHICLE INTO WATER THAT COVERS A ROADWAY. THE WATER MAYBE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK. LAT...LON 4075 7577 4082 7556 4100 7572 4090 7597 $$ AMC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 47 min |
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.