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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2006Chester County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2006, 10:55 PM EDT for Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 2006, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2006, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chester County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 27, 11:14 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG5 W West Chester, PATREES AND WIRES DOWN OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN PARTS OF COUNTY

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2366 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2006-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
2366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 280256
SVRPHI
PAC029-280400-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0208.060728T0255Z-060728T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1055 PM EDT THU JUL 27 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT

* AT 1053 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PARKESBURG...OR
  ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF LANCASTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM
  COULD PRODUCE WINDS OF 60 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PARKESBURG BY 1100 PM EDT...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF HONEY BROOK BY 1105 PM EDT...
  COATESVILLE BY 1110 PM EDT...
  DOWNINGTOWN BY 1120 PM EDT...
  WEST CHESTER AND LIONVILLE BY 1130 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4001 7615 3984 7609 3985 7564 4002 7552
      4019 7564 4019 7574

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 11:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIDelaware, Montgomery88 min
Jul 28, 12:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIPhiladelphia43 min
Jul 28, 12:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia3 hr
Jul 28, 12:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks65 min
Jul 28, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia62 min
Jul 28, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIPhiladelphia56 min
Jul 28, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks53 min
Jul 28, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.