Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2007, 7:01 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 3, 2007, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2007, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 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), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 3, 7:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 1 Se Greentown, PA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 032303 SVRPHI PAC089-040000- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0169.070803T2301Z-070804T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 701 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 658 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SKYTOP...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF SCRANTON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SKYTOP BY 710 PM EDT... CANADENSIS AND MOUNTAINHOME BY 715 PM EDT... 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF PARADISE VALLEY BY 720 PM EDT... 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALPINE MOUNTAIN AND 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF HERNYVILLE BY 725 PM EDT... 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANALOMINK BY 730 PM EDT... ECHO LAKE BY 740 PM EDT... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS LAT...LON 4140 7521 4122 7543 4098 7515 4118 7488 $$ RPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 64 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.