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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 16, 2007Delaware County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2007, 4:35 PM EDT for Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 40 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
May 16, 2007, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2007, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Delaware County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
May 16, 5:00 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGProspect Park, PATREES DOWN.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 16, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 2007-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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 2007-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1421 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 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 162035
SVRPHI
PAC045-162115-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0010.070516T2035Z-070516T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
435 PM EDT WED MAY 16 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD...

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 432 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES WEST OF LIMA...OR ABOUT
  14 MILES NORTH OF NEWARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LIMA...NETHER PROVIDENCE TOWNSHIP AND 7 MILES NORTH OF CHESTER BY
  450 PM EDT...
  BROOMALL...SPRINGFIELD...SWARTHMORE AND RADNOR TOWNSHIP BY 455 PM
  EDT...

LAT...LON 3997 7547 3985 7560 3981 7541 3987 7529
      4005 7538

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Chester, Montgomery42 min
May 16, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIDelaware49 min
May 16, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester, Montgomery, Philadelphia45 min
May 16, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester44 min
May 16, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIPhiladelphia52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2007Every severe thunderstorm 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.