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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2006Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2006, 7:28 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montgomery County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 012327
SVRPHI
PAC091-020015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0055.060601T2328Z-060602T0015Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WEST NORRITON...TROOPER...
  KULPSVILLE...HARLEYSVILLE...EAST NORRITON...EAGLEVILLE...
  COLLEGEVILLE

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 726 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  TRAPPE...OR ABOUT NEAR ROYERSFORD...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SCHWENKSVILLE...SKIPPACK...SPRING MOUNT AND EVANSBURG BY 735 PM
  EDT...
  KULPSVILLE...HARLEYSVILLE AND 7 MILES NORTH OF EAST NORRITON BY 740
  PM EDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4023 7560 4021 7559 4008 7535 4032 7534

$$

JJM

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, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks63 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.