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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 17, 2007Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2007, 2:54 PM EDT for Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 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: Aug 17, 2007, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lehigh County, PA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 17, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -267 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 171855
SVRPHI
PAC077-172000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0199.070817T1854Z-070817T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
254 PM EDT FRI AUG 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 251 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 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF EMERALD...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALLENTOWN...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EMERALD...8 MILES NORTH OF NEFFS AND 9 MILES NORTH OF SCHNECKSVILLE
  BY 305 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN DELAWARE AND NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4078 7568 4078 7563 4079 7562 4075 7561
      4072 7557 4073 7555 4072 7553 4063 7562
      4073 7580
TIME...MOT...LOC 1854Z 286DEG 36KT 4083 7572

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 17, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	72 min
Aug 17, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon	68 min
Aug 17, 2:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Chester	46 min
Aug 17, 2:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Carbon	26 min
Aug 17, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Northampton	70 min
Aug 17, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Delaware	54 min
Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe, Northampton	79 min
Aug 17, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	62 min
Aug 17, 2:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Carbon, Northampton	45 min
Aug 17, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon	19 min
Aug 17, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe, Northampton	60 min
Aug 17, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	43 min
Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	58 min
Aug 17, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery	19 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2007 Every 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.