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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 25, 2007Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2007, 7:40 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 25, 2007, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2007, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carbon County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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
Aug 25, 8:00 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG3 Ne New Mahoning, PATREES AND WIRES DOWN IN MAHONING TOWNSHIP.

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
Aug 25, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 2007-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1539 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 2007-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 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 252340
SVRPHI
PAC025-260045-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0219.070825T2340Z-070826T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
740 PM EDT SAT AUG 25 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 737 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF NEW MAHONING...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  NORTH OF READING...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW MAHONING BY 755 PM EDT...
  NESQUEHONING BY 800 PM EDT...
  JIM THORPE...LEHIGHTON AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WEATHERLY BY 805 PM
  EDT...
  CHRISTMANS AND BELTZVILLE STATE PARK BY 815 PM EDT...
  PENN FOREST RESERVOIR AND ALBRIGHTSVILLE BY 820 PM EDT...
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAKE HARMONY BY 825 PM EDT...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MARYLAND AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 4108 7560 4096 7554 4094 7557 4086 7550
      4082 7548 4078 7568 4075 7577 4091 7599
      4098 7585 4100 7576 4102 7575 4104 7576
      4112 7563
TIME...MOT...LOC 2340Z 237DEG 38KT 4074 7604

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon58 min
Aug 25, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh63 min
Aug 25, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe57 min
Aug 25, 7:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh67 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.