Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Frost Advisories in 2011
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at Oct 6, 2011, 3:04 AM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It took effect at Oct 7, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2011, 3:04 AM EDT (07:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 7, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2011, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2193 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
485 WWUS71 KPHI 060704 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 304 AM EDT THU OCT 6 2011 NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-062-062000- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.111007T0600Z-111007T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-NORTHAMPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...JIM THORPE... STROUDSBURG...BETHLEHEM...EASTON 304 AM EDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY AND THE SOUTHERN POCONOS OF PENNSYLVANIA. * HAZARDS...AREAS OF FROST. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * TIMING...AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 200 AM AND LAST UNTIL 800 AM FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE FLOWERING PLANTS AND VEGETABLES SHOULD BE BROUGHT INSIDE OR COVERED TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE FROST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
3 follow-up statements
665 WWUS71 KPHI 061932 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 332 PM EDT THU OCT 6 2011 NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-062-070345- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.111007T0600Z-111007T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-NORTHAMPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...JIM THORPE... STROUDSBURG...BETHLEHEM...EASTON 332 PM EDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY... * LOCATIONS...PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY AND THE SOUTHERN POCONOS OF PENNSYLVANIA. * HAZARDS...AREAS OF FROST. * TEMPERATURES...BETWEEN 33 AND 37 DEGREES IN PORTIONS OF SUSSEX AND WARREN COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY AS WELL AS CARBON MONROE AND NORTHAMPTON IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * TIMING...AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 200 AM AND LAST UNTIL 800 AM FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE FLOWERING PLANTS AND VEGETABLES SHOULD BE BROUGHT INSIDE OR COVERED TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE FROST. * CONFIDENCE...AVERAGE. THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE A DECK OF MID CLOUDS MAY ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH AROUND 5 OR 6 AM THAT COULD REDUCE THE CHANCE OF FROST FORMING DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$ DRAG
044 WWUS71 KPHI 070144 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 944 PM EDT THU OCT 6 2011 NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-062-071200- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.111007T0600Z-111007T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-NORTHAMPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...JIM THORPE... STROUDSBURG...BETHLEHEM...EASTON 944 PM EDT THU OCT 6 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY... * LOCATIONS...PARTS OF NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY, THE POCONO REGION AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. * HAZARD...AREAS OF FROST. * TEMPERATURES...BETWEEN 33 AND 37 DEGREES IN PARTS OF SUSSEX AND WARREN COUNTIES IN NORTHWESTERN NEW JERSEY, AS WELL AS CARBON, MONROE AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. * TIMING...AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER 200 AM AND THEY SHOULD LAST UNTIL AROUND 800 AM FRIDAY. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE PLANTS SHOULD BE BROUGHT INSIDE OR COVERED TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE FROST. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS POSSIBLE. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
582 WWUS71 KPHI 071213 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 813 AM EDT FRI OCT 7 2011 NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-062-071315- /O.EXP.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-111007T1200Z/ SUSSEX-WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-NORTHAMPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...JIM THORPE... STROUDSBURG...BETHLEHEM...EASTON 813 AM EDT FRI OCT 7 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... LOW TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING WERE GENERALLY WITHIN A DEGREE OF YESTERDAYS LOW TEMPERATURES...PROBABLY WITH PATCHY FROST ON BOTH MORNINGS. A FEW LOWS THIS MORNING WERE 35 IN WALPACK...34 IN SUSSEX...BOTH IN SUSSEX COUNTY OF NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...WITH 33 IN PEQUEST OF WARREN COUNTY WITH 34 IN MOUNT POCONO PENNSYLVANIA. $$
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.