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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2007Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2007, 7:03 PM EDT for Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2007, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2007, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Lehigh County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 1, 7:30 PM EDTFLASH FLOOD5 Se Allentown, PAROADWAY FLOODING ALONG ROUTE 309 IN UPPER SAUCON

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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 2007-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2007-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 
WGUS51 KPHI 012303
FFWPHI
PAC077-020200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
703 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ALLENTOWN...

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 657 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. THIS
  WAS THE SAME AREAS THAT EXPERIENCED FLASH FLOODING LAST EVENING.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FULLERTON.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4066 7543 4058 7570 4044 7550 4053 7540

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 8:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh116 min
May 31, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh45 min
May 31, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh40 min
May 31, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh34 min
May 31, 9:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHILehigh3 hr
May 31, 11:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHILehigh93 min
Jun 1, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe54 min
Jun 1, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe38 min
Jun 1, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINorthampton82 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe66 min
Jun 1, 4:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe3 hr
Jun 1, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks87 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks3 hr
Jun 1, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh58 min
Jun 1, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks62 min
Jun 1, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks88 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.