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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2007, 8:55 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 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
- Aug 25, 2007, 8:55 PM EDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2007, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:58 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Ne Lehighton, PA | ROAD FLOODING THROUGHOUT FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 239 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KPHI 260055
FFWPHI
PAC025-260445-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
855 PM EDT SAT AUG 25 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 1245 AM EDT
* AT 850 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN ALONG BLUE MOUNTAIN AND ANOTHER
THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING FROM SCHUYLKILL COUNTY.
PARTS OF SOUTHERN CARBON COUNTY HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED TWO TO THREE
INCHES OF RAIN THIS EVENING. ANOTHER TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS
POSSIBLE BETWEEN 9:00 PM AND 10:00 PM.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NEW
MAHONING...BELTZVILLE STATE PARK...PENN FOREST RESERVOIR...
ALBRIGHTSVILLE...CHRISTMANS...PALMERTON...NESQUEHONING...
LEHIGHTON AND JIM THORPE
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 4095 7555 4095 7557 4094 7557 4086 7550
4082 7549 4079 7560 4078 7568 4073 7577
4082 7591 4083 7591 4103 7558
TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 180DEG 0KT 4067 7609
$$
IOVINOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 58 min |
| Aug 25, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 55 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.