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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 8, 2007Bucks County, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2007, 10:40 PM EDT for Bucks County, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 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 8, 2007, 10:40 PM EDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2007, 11:22 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bucks County, PA, Montgomery County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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 8, 10:50 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG3 Se Gilbertsville, PATREE DOWN IN NEW HANOVER.
Jun 8, 11:08 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG2 E Doylestown, PATREE DOWN ON CAR IN BUCKINGHAM.

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
Jun 8, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 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 090241
SVRPHI
PAC017-091-090345-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0051.070609T0240Z-070609T0345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1040 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... 
  NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 1037 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 NEAR
  GILBERTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF ALLENTOWN...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  QUAKERTOWN BY 1050 PM EDT...
  PERKASIE...SOUDERTON AND 8 MILES NORTH OF LANSDALE BY 1055 PM
  EDT...
  DUBLIN AND CHALFONT BY 1100 PM EDT...
  DOYLESTOWN BY 1105 PM EDT...
  9 MILES NORTH OF NEWTOWN AND 9 MILES NORTH OF RICHBORO BY 1115 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
FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MARYLAND.

LAT...LON 4044 7553 4042 7549 4047 7543 4049 7511
      4020 7488 4022 7555 4028 7567

$$

JJM
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 090322
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1122 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007

PAC017-091-090332-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0051.000000T0000Z-070609T0345Z/
MONTGOMERY PA-BUCKS PA-
1122 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL BUCKS AND NORTHERN
MONTGOMERY COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 4044 7553 4042 7549 4047 7543 4049 7511
      4020 7488 4022 7555 4028 7567

$$

JJM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester46 min
Jun 8, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks48 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.