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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 12, 2007Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 2:48 PM EDT for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 min. 4 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 12, 2007, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2007, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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 12, 2:50 PM EDTHAIL 0.25Philadelphia, PAPEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN REPORTED IN TEH SUMMERTON SECTION OF PHILADELPHIA.
Jun 12, 3:00 PM EDTHAIL 0.5Philadelphia, PADIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN PHILADELPHIA.
Jun 12, 3:11 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGNw Philadelphia, PANUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.
Jun 12, 3:23 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGNw Philadelphia, PANUMEROUS TREES REPORTED DOWN IN THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY.

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 12, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 109 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 186 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1120 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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 121850
SVRPHI
PAC101-121930-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0065.070612T1848Z-070612T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
248 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PHILADELPHIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA...

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 245 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS NEAR
  60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NEAR FEASTERVILLE...OR ABOUT
  11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...AND MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE PUBLIC REPORTED TREES DOWN AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR OXFORD
  VALLEY MALL AROUND 235 PM. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA BY 300 PM EDT...
  PHILADELPHIA BY 315 PM EDT...
  CENTER CITY BY 320 PM EDT...
  6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROXBOROUGH BY 325 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4007 7491 4013 7502 3997 7527 3992 7517

$$

JRP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 12:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe64 min
Jun 12, 1:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh26 min
Jun 12, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks42 min
Jun 12, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Lehigh, Northampton30 min
Jun 12, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery, Philadelphia30 min
Jun 12, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks35 min
Jun 12, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia40 min
Jun 12, 4:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMontgomery3 hr
Jun 12, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks37 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBucks119 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.