Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2006, 6:12 PM EDT for Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 2, 2006, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 022212
SVRPHI
PAC095-022315-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0110.060702T2212Z-060702T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
612 PM EDT SUN JUL 2 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 611 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
NORTHAMPTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF ALLENTOWN...AND MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BATH AND BETHLEHEM BY 620 PM EDT...
NAZARETH AND 6 MILES NORTH OF HELLERTOWN BY 625 PM EDT...
OLD ORCHARD BY 630 PM EDT...
EASTON BY 635 PM EDT...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4076 7518 4069 7522 4067 7519 4065 7522
4062 7520 4058 7528 4059 7540 4065 7541
4067 7544 4066 7549 4074 7555 4073 7557
4079 7556
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 91 min |
| Jul 2, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 66 min |
| Jul 2, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006Every severe thunderstorm 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.