Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2008, 4:42 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 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 8, 2008, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2008, 5:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 082043
SVRPHI
PAC089-082145-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0047.080608T2042Z-080608T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
442 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT
* AT 437 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 NEAR
GOULSBORO STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON...
AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
MOUNT POCONO BY 455 PM...
MOUNTAINHOME AND CANADENSIS BY 500 PM...
PARADISE VALLEY AND SCOTRUN BY 505 PM...
ALPINE MOUNTAIN AND HERNYVILLE BY 510 PM...
ANALOMINK BY 515 PM...
EAST STROUDSBURG BY 525 PM...
LAT...LON 4119 7514 4118 7515 4116 7515 4115 7509
4109 7504 4094 7525 4116 7558 4125 7549
4125 7541
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 303DEG 22KT 4120 7542
$$
KRUZDLO1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 082125
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
524 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008
PAC089-082134-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0047.000000T0000Z-080608T2145Z/
MONROE PA-
524 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONROE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF THE WARNED AREA, THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4119 7514 4118 7515 4116 7515 4115 7509
4109 7504 4094 7525 4116 7558 4125 7549
4125 7541
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 303DEG 22KT 4106 7513
$$
KRUZDLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 63 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.