Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Areal Flood Advisories in 2013
Areal Flood Advisory 20, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at May 22, 2013, 11:54 AM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 111 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2013, 11:54 AM EDT (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2013, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 111 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 22, 11:49 AM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 11:49 AM EDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 10:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1004 AM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 NJZ001-007>010-PAZ054-055-060>062-103-105-231415- SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-CARBON-MONROE-BERKS-LEHIGH- NORTHAMPTON-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-UPPER BUCKS- 1004 AM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY...EAST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WHICH COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS, HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ012>027-PAZ070-071-101-102-104- 106-231415- NEW CASTLE-KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-CECIL-KENT MD- QUEEN ANNES-TALBOT-CAROLINE-MIDDLESEX-WESTERN MONMOUTH- EASTERN MONMOUTH-MERCER-SALEM-GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN- NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY- ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON-DELAWARE-PHILADELPHIA-WESTERN CHESTER- EASTERN CHESTER-EASTERN MONTGOMERY-LOWER BUCKS- 1004 AM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL DELAWARE...NORTHERN DELAWARE...SOUTHERN DELAWARE...NORTHEAST MARYLAND...CENTRAL NEW JERSEY...NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ANZ430-431-450>455-231415- 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- 1004 AM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND DELAWARE BAY WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 11:39 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1139 AM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
PAZ055-221630-
MONROE PA-
1139 AM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY...
AT 1134 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF GOULDSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MOUNT POCONO...SCOTRUN...SCOTRUN
AROUND 1145 AM...PARADISE VALLEY...PARADISE VALLEY AROUND 1155 AM...
CRESCO...HERNYVILLE...HENRYVILLE AROUND NOON...MOUNTAINHOME AND
MOUNTAINHOME AROUND 1205 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 4125 7512 4116 7515 4115 7509 4113 7506
4102 7548 4119 7556 4124 7545 4126 7517
4126 7513
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:15 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 60 hr | |
| May 22, 11:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 51 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.