Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2008, 8:28 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 35 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 20, 2008, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2008, 9:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 235 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
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 210029
SVRPHI
PAC025-089-210130-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0095.080621T0028Z-080621T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
828 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 930 PM EDT
* AT 825 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WEATHERLY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF
WILKES-BARRE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
JIM THORPE BY 835 PM...
CHRISTMANS BY 840 PM...
PENN FOREST RESERVOIR AND BELTZVILLE STATE PARK BY 850 PM...
7 MILES NORTHEAST OF PALMERTON BY 855 PM...
GILBERT BY 905 PM...
ROSSLAND BY 915 PM...
LAT...LON 4089 7535 4082 7542 4080 7556 4079 7561
4090 7589 4098 7585 4098 7581 4101 7575
4102 7575 4105 7579 4106 7578
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 293DEG 21KT 4095 7574
$$
SZATKOWSKI1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KPHI 210103
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
901 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008
PAC025-089-210111-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-080621T0130Z/
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
901 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CARBON AND SOUTHWESTERN
MONROE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND
IS NO LONGER SEVERE. PERSONS IN SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY WILL
SEE WINDS GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL WITH THE
STORM...AS WELL AS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
LAT...LON 4089 7535 4082 7542 4080 7556 4079 7561
4090 7589 4098 7585 4098 7581 4101 7575
4102 7575 4105 7579 4106 7578
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 293DEG 21KT 4087 7551
$$
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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.