Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 26, 2006Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2006, 9:52 AM EDT for Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 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 26, 2006, 9:52 AM EDT (13:52 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2006, 10:30 AM EDT
In force
38 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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 
WUUS51 KPHI 261352
SVRPHI
PAC095-261430-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0036.060526T1352Z-060526T1430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
952 AM EDT FRI MAY 26 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WILSON...PEN ARGYL...PALMER
  HEIGHTS...NORTHAMPTON...NAZARETH...BETHLEHEM...BANGOR

* UNTIL 1030 AM EDT

* AT 950 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTHAMPTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BATH BY 1005 AM EDT...
  NAZARETH BY 1010 AM EDT...
  EASTLAWN GARDENS BY 1015 AM EDT...
  WIND GAP AND BELFAST BY 1020 AM EDT...
  PEN ARGYL BY 1025 AM EDT...
  ROSETO AND BANGOR BY 1030 AM EDT...

LAT...LON 4067 7523 4062 7536 4062 7540 4067 7544
      4066 7549 4074 7555 4073 7557 4074 7559
      4092 7517 4092 7517

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 9:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh26 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.