Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2006, 4:18 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 13 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
- May 13, 2006, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2006, 4:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 132019 SVRPHI PAC089-132045- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0030.060513T2018Z-060513T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 418 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF BRODHEADSVILLE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTH OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRODHEADSVILLE BY 430 PM EDT LAT...LON 4085 7539 4095 7517 4110 7528 4097 7549 $$ STAUBER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 132031 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 431 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2006 PAC089-132041- /O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-060513T2045Z/ MONROE PA- 431 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... EVEN THOUGH THE POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED, SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE. LAT...LON 4085 7539 4095 7517 4110 7528 4097 7549 $$ STAUBER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 83 min |
| May 13, 1:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 23 min |
| May 13, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 34 min |
| May 13, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 46 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.