Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 6, 2007Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2007, 7:27 PM EDT for Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 6, 2007, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2007, 7:55 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 062327
SVRPHI
PAC095-070015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0127.070706T2327Z-070707T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
727 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BETHLEHEM...

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 725 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  WIND GAP...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTH OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EAST BANGOR AND 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF BELFAST BY 735 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4086 7505 4084 7510 4079 7510 4078 7517
      4075 7520 4062 7520 4054 7535 4058 7541
      4062 7539 4066 7543 4065 7549 4074 7554
      4073 7557 4075 7561 4079 7562 4085 7533
      4096 7514

$$
JJM
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 062355
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
755 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2007

PAC095-070005-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0127.000000T0000Z-070707T0015Z/
NORTHAMPTON PA-
755 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4086 7505 4084 7510 4079 7510 4078 7517
      4075 7520 4062 7520 4054 7535 4058 7541
      4062 7539 4066 7543 4065 7549 4074 7554
      4073 7557 4075 7561 4079 7562 4085 7533
      4096 7514

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 2:10 PM EDTExcessive Heat WatchPHIDelaware, Philadelphia48 hr
Jul 6, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.