Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2007Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2007, 3:37 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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
Jun 1, 2007, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2007, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 1, 3:49 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG5 Ene Arlington Heights, PATREES DOWN IN SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP
Jun 1, 4:00 PM EDTHAIL 0.884 E Arlington Heights, PANICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN SHAWNEE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 2007-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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 2007-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 011937
SVRPHI
PAC089-012015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0038.070601T1937Z-070601T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
337 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2007
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME EAST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 331 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  EAST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY...IN SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP AND 
  MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP AT 340 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY
RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE IN AREAS WHERE
WATER IS CROSSING THE ROAD.
 
IF YOU SEE THREATENING WEATHER HEAD INDOORS IMMEDIATELY.

 
LAT...LON 4104 7513 4099 7515 4097 7514 4105 7501

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 8:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh116 min
May 31, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh45 min
May 31, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh40 min
May 31, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh34 min
May 31, 9:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHILehigh3 hr
May 31, 11:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHILehigh93 min
Jun 1, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe54 min
Jun 1, 3:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINorthampton82 min
Jun 1, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe66 min
Jun 1, 4:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe3 hr
Jun 1, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks87 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks3 hr
Jun 1, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh58 min
Jun 1, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks62 min
Jun 1, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks88 min
Jun 1, 7:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHILehigh3 hr

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.