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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 19, 2009Sussex County, New Jersey; Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at Sep 19, 2009, 3:27 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey; Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Sep 20, 2009, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 19, 2009, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 20, 2009, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 20, 2009, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 12:00Z on 2009-09-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2009-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 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 
WWUS71 KPHI 191927
NPWPHI

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
327 PM EDT SAT SEP 19 2009

NJZ001-PAZ054-055-201200-
/O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0006.090920T0700Z-090920T1200Z/
SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG
327 PM EDT SAT SEP 19 2009

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT SUNDAY. 

A LARGE AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WITH COLD DRY AIR WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. SKIES WILL BE CLEAR AND WINDS WILL BE LIGHT...
AND TEMPERATURES OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS AND IN THE COLDER
INTERIOR VALLEYS WILL APPROACH THE FREEZING MARK. THIS WILL LEAD
TO AREAS OF FROST. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR
PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

&&

$$

MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS71 KPHI 201155
NPWPHI

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
755 AM EDT SUN SEP 20 2009

NJZ001-PAZ054-055-201300-
/O.EXP.KPHI.FR.Y.0006.000000T0000Z-090920T1200Z/
SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG
755 AM EDT SUN SEP 20 2009

...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING...

THE FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING. 

TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB THROUGH THE 30S AND 40S EARLY
THIS MORNING, THEREFORE THE FROST ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 8 AM.

$$

GORSE

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.