Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Frost Advisories in 2006
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at May 6, 2006, 2:43 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 7, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2006, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KPHI 061843 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 243 PM EDT SAT MAY 6 2006 PAZ054-055-071000- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.060507T0400Z-060507T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 243 PM EDT SAT MAY 6 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM EDT SUNDAY. A COLDER AND DRIER AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. WITH A MOSTLY CLEAR SKY AND A DIMINISHING WIND OVERNIGHT, TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP INTO THE MID 30S BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. SOME OF THE NORMALLY COLDER LOCATIONS WILL HAVE TEMPERATURES DROP INTO THE LOWER 30S. AS A RESULT OF THESE TEMPERATURES, SCATTERED FROST WILL DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. TO PROTECT SENSITIVE PLANTS FROM ANY FROST THAT FORMS, COVER THEM UP WITH A LIGHT BLANKET OR A SHEET OF PLASTIC. IF POSSIBLE, BRING ANY POTTED PLANTS INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS, OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ GORSE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KPHI 070810 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 410 AM EDT SUN MAY 7 2006 PAZ054-055-071200- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-060507T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 410 AM EDT SUN MAY 7 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... UNDER A MOSTLY CLEAR SKY...TEMPERATURES HAVE FALLEN INTO THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 30S EARLY THIS MORNING IN THE POCONO REGION. THERE WILL LIKELY BE AREAS OF FROST IN SHELTERED LOCATIONS. AS A RESULT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CONTINUED THE FROST ADVISORY FOR EARLY THIS MORNING. $$ IOVINO
000 WWUS71 KPHI 071133 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 733 AM EDT SUN MAY 7 2006 PAZ054-055-071245- /O.EXP.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-060507T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 733 AM EDT SUN MAY 7 2006 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THE FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING. $$ RNS
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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.