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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

December 1, 2006Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Dec 1, 2006, 5:07 PM EST for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports 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: Dec 1, 2006, 5:07 PM EST (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Dec 1, 2006, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 38 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 1, 5:30 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Mount Pocono, PA	POWER LINES DOWN, KNOCKING OUT POWER.
Dec 1, 5:30 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Pocono Pines, PA	TREE KNOCKED DOWN WHICH FELL ONTO A CAR.
Dec 1, 5:32 PM EST	TSTM WND GST 51	Mount Pocono, PA	A 51 MPH WIND GUST WAS MEASURED AT THE MOUNT POCONO AIRPORT.

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
Dec 1, 3:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KPHI 012207
TORPHI
PAC089-012245-
/O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0009.061201T2207Z-061201T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
507 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 545 PM EST

* AT 503 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF POCONO PINES...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  SCRANTON...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  MOUNTAINHOME BY 515 PM EST...

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO VIOLENT TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST
FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4115 7568 4107 7557 4115 7511 4126 7512
      4125 7554

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 1, 3:54 AM EST	High Wind Warning	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and 1 more	21 hr
Dec 1, 3:54 AM EST	Wind Advisory	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	21 hr
Dec 1, 4:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh	78 min
Dec 1, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe, Northampton	71 min
Dec 1, 5:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	42 min
Dec 1, 5:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PHI	Northampton	35 min

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.