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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2006Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 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: Jun 1, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2006, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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 nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 012045
SVRPHI
PAC089-012115-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0048.060601T2045Z-060601T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
445 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 441 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNTAINHOME...OR
  ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 12
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4125 7537 4107 7532 4114 7509 4126 7516

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon	36 min
Jun 1, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Carbon	116 min
Jun 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	42 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	65 min
Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery	49 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	63 min
Jun 1, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2006 Every 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.