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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 12, 2007Bucks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2007, 8:27 PM EDT for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 12, 2007, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2007, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bucks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 2007-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 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 00:00Z on 2007-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 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 130027
SVRPHI
PAC017-130130-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0075.070613T0027Z-070613T0130Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 820 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 24
  MILES NORTHEAST OF QUAKERTOWN...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF
  BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  QUAKERTOWN BY 925 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4048 7506 4060 7519 4050 7541 4043 7547
      4037 7539

$$

MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 130116
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
916 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

PAC017-130130-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0075.000000T0000Z-070613T0130Z/
BUCKS PA-
916 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN BUCKS COUNTY...

AT 907 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RICHLANDTOWN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST 
OF BETHLEHEM...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL WESTERN BUCKS COUNTY AT 930 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4042 7515 4054 7533 4050 7541 4043 7547
      4033 7530 4038 7519

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 4:26 AM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryPHIDelaware, Philadelphia23 hr
Jun 13, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Lehigh61 min
Jun 13, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks83 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.