Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2006, 5:28 AM EST for Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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
- Jan 14, 2006, 5:28 AM EST (10:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2006, 6:15 AM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 5:35 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Nazareth, PA | WIRES DOWN IN NAZARETH BOROUGH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2:46 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 431 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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 141029 SVRPHI PAC077-095-141115- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0004.060114T1028Z-060114T1115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 528 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ALLENTOWN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM * UNTIL 615 AM EST * AT 526 AM EST...LEHIGH COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED DOWNED TREES IN THE COUNTY, THIS THUNDERSTORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ADDITIONAL DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALLENTOWN...AND MOVING NORTH AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NORTHAMPTON AND OLD ORCHARD BY 535 AM EST BATH AND NAZARETH BY 540 AM EST BELFAST BY 545 AM EST WIND GAP BY 550 AM EST DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM. LAT...LON 4054 7560 4048 7538 4083 7513 4087 7539 $$ TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 4:32 AM EST | Wind Advisory | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and 1 more | 37 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:35 PM EST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Philadelphia | 18 hr |
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.