Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Areal Flood Advisories in 2013
Areal Flood Advisory 128, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 22, 2013, 2:48 PM EDT for Berks County, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2013, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2013, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Berks County, PA, Lehigh County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Jul 22, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 7:57 AM EDT, 6 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 757 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013 PAZ054-055-231200- CARBON-MONROE- 757 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING MAY OCCUR TODAY AND TONIGHT FROM SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. LOCAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING MAY OCCUR TUESDAY ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVY SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-015>019-021- PAZ060>062-070-071-101>106-231200- NEW CASTLE-KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-CECIL-KENT MD- QUEEN ANNES-TALBOT-CAROLINE-SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET- MERCER-SALEM-GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-CUMBERLAND- BERKS-LEHIGH-NORTHAMPTON-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA-WESTERN CHESTER- EASTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-EASTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS- LOWER BUCKS- 757 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL DELAWARE...NORTHERN DELAWARE...SOUTHERN DELAWARE...NORTHEAST MARYLAND...CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY...EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. LOCAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING MAY OCCUR TUESDAY ASSOCIATED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NJZ012>014-020-022>027-231200- MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH-OCEAN-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY- ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- 757 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF MINOR COASTAL FLOODING WITH THIS EVENINGS HIGH TIDE CYCLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. LOCAL POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING MAY OCCUR TUESDAY ASSOCIATED WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ430-431-450>455-231200- DELAWARE BAY WATERS NORTH OF EAST POINT NJ TO SLAUGHTER BEACH DE- DELAWARE BAY WATERS SOUTH OF EAST POINT NJ TO SLAUGHTER BEACH DE- COASTAL WATERS FROM SANDY HOOK TO MANASQUAN INLET NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM MANASQUAN INLET TO LITTLE EGG INLET NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM LITTLE EGG INLET TO GREAT EGG INLET NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM GREAT EGG INLET TO CAPE MAY NJ OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE MAY NJ TO CAPE HENLOPEN DE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE HENLOPEN TO FENWICK ISLAND DE OUT 20 NM- 757 AM EDT MON JUL 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND DELAWARE BAY WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:08 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 60 min |
| Jul 22, 4:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Ocean | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 75 min |
| Jul 22, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 5:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 7:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 1:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks | 113 min |
| Jul 22, 6:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 7:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 58 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2013Every areal flood advisory in 2013
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.