Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2013, 6:12 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 7, 2013, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
058 WUUS51 KPHI 072212 SVRPHI PAC025-089-072300- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0063.130707T2212Z-130707T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 612 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... SOUTHERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SHORT LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE SEVERE STORMS WERE EXTENDED FROM NEW RINGGOLD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... NEW MAHONING AROUND 620 PM EDT... NESQUEHONING AROUND 625 PM EDT... JIM THORPE AND LEHIGHTON AROUND 630 PM EDT... PALMERTON AROUND 640 PM EDT... CHRISTMANS AND BELTZVILLE STATE PARK AROUND 645 PM EDT... PENN FOREST RESERVOIR AROUND 650 PM EDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OF MORE THAN 57 MPH...OR HAIL ONE INCH OR LARGER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MARYLAND AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. && LAT...LON 4102 7558 4087 7542 4073 7577 4083 7590 TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 231DEG 32KT 4074 7590 4070 7591 $$ FORECASTER: DRAG
2 follow-up statements
754 WWUS51 KPHI 072233 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 633 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 PAC025-089-072300- /O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-130707T2300Z/ MONROE PA-CARBON PA- 633 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL CARBON AND SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTIES... AT 631 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A VERY SHORT LINE OF POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS TO ABOUT 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR LEHIGHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BELTZVILLE STATE PARK AROUND 645 PM EDT... TRACHSVILLE AND PENN FOREST RESERVOIR AROUND 650 PM EDT... FIDDLETOWN AROUND 655 PM EDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MARYLAND AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. && LAT...LON 4079 7568 4085 7574 4102 7558 4087 7542 TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 231DEG 32KT 4086 7571 4082 7572 $$ FORECASTER: DRAG
589 WWUS51 KPHI 072241 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 641 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 PAC025-089-072251- /O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0063.000000T0000Z-130707T2300Z/ MONROE PA-CARBON PA- 641 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CARBON AND SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MARYLAND AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LAT...LON 4079 7568 4085 7574 4102 7558 4087 7542 TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 231DEG 32KT 4091 7563 4087 7564 $$ FORECASTER: DRAG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Chester, Lehigh, Northampton | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon | 59 min |
| Jul 7, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Chester | 40 min |
| Jul 7, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 48 min |
| Jul 7, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware, Philadelphia | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.