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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2006Bucks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2006, 6:27 PM EDT for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 1, 2006, 6:27 PM EDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2006, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bucks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 1, 6:53 PM EDTTSTM WND GST 58Perkasie, PAMEASURED BY A HAND HELD ANEMOMETER

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

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 126 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 174 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2006-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 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 012229
SVRPHI
PAC017-012330-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0052.060601T2227Z-060601T2330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 623 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF  
QUAKERTOWN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF ALLENTOWN...AND MOVING EAST  
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  QUAKERTOWN AND PERKASIE BY 645 PM EDT...
  6 MILES NORTH OF DUBLIN BY 700 PM EDT...

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 4042 7550 4033 7535 4037 7501 4058 7520

$$

RPW
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 012300
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
700 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006

PAC017-012330-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-060601T2330Z/
BUCKS PA-
700 PM EDT THU JUN 1 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY...

AT 654 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PERKASIE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF 
BETHLEHEM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO 
SILVERDALE AND DUBLIN.

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 4036 7539 4028 7525 4037 7501 4045 7508
      4052 7507

$$

ROBERTSON/HELMETAG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon36 min
Jun 1, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe30 min
Jun 1, 5:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICarbon116 min
Jun 1, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks42 min
Jun 1, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester65 min
Jun 1, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery49 min
Jun 1, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery47 min

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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.