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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 19, 2007Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2007, 7:28 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 min. 6 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 19, 2007, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2007, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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 19, 7:32 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGLehighton, PATREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN COUNTYWIDE.
Jun 19, 7:58 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMount Pocono, PATREES DOWN
Jun 19, 8:20 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG3 Nw Brodheadsville, PATREES DOWN
Jun 19, 8:29 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG7 Sw Stroudsburg, PATREES DOWN
Jun 19, 8:38 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGStroudsburg, PATREES DOWN
Jun 19, 8:40 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGLehighton, PATREES AND WIRES REPORTED DOWN COUNTYWIDE.

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 19, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 2007-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 290 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 2007-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 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 192331
SVRPHI
PAC025-089-200030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0078.070619T2328Z-070620T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
728 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 724 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED NEAR JIM THORPE...ABOUT 23 MILES
  SOUTH OF WILKES-BARRE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  9 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRODHEADSVILLE BY 745 PM EDT...
  POCONO PINES BY 750 PM EDT...
  MOUNT POCONO BY 755 PM EDT...
  MOUNTAINHOME BY 800 PM EDT...

THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS, SMALL HAIL,
VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4103 7576 4075 7577 4087 7534 4106 7500
      4124 7515 4124 7543

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks41 min
Jun 19, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester63 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.