Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Frost Advisories in 2014
Frost Advisory 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at May 5, 2014, 3:48 AM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 6, 2014, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2014, 3:48 AM EDT (07:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 6, 2014, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 5, 2014, 10:04 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
620 WWUS71 KPHI 050748 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 348 AM EDT MON MAY 5 2014 PAZ054-055-052100- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0003.140506T0700Z-140506T1100Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 348 AM EDT MON MAY 5 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY. * TEMPERATURES...DROPPING INTO THE LOWER TO MID 30S BY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OR EARLY-BLOOMING VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL OR GARDENING INTERESTS IN THE ADVISORY AREA SHOULD PROTECT SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS. POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. && $$
2 follow-up statements
294 WWUS71 KPHI 051927 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 327 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2014 PAZ054-055-061100- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0003.140506T0700Z-140506T1100Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 327 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY... * TEMPERATURES...LOW TEMPERATURES DROPPING INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S BY TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OR EARLY-BLOOMING VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL OR GARDENING INTERESTS IN THE ADVISORY AREA SHOULD PROTECT SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS. POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. && $$ PO
372 WWUS71 KPHI 060204 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1004 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2014 PAZ054-055-060315- /O.CAN.KPHI.FR.Y.0003.140506T0700Z-140506T1100Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 1004 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. INCREASING CLOUDINESS WILL HELP TO KEEP TEMPERATURES WARMER ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND PRECLUDE FROST FORMATION. PATCHY FROST MAY DEVELOP IN A FEW COOLER SPOTS BUT WE ARE NOT EXPECTING A WIDESPREAD FROST TO OCCUR. $$
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.