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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2006Carbon County, Pennsylvania

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 174 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon36 min
Jun 1, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe30 min
Jun 1, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks42 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester65 min
Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery49 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks63 min
Jun 1, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery47 min

Nearby

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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.