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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at May 6, 2014, 3:30 AM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; Sussex County, New Jersey. It took effect at May 7, 2014, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2014, 3:30 AM EDT (07:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2014, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2014, 7:48 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 2386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
781 WWUS71 KPHI 060730 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2014 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-062100- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.140507T0700Z-140507T1200Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 330 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. * TEMPERATURES...LOW TEMPERATURES DROPPING INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S BY WEDNESDAY 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
086 WWUS71 KPHI 061911 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 311 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2014 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-071200- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.140507T0700Z-140507T1200Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 311 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. * IMPACTS...POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OR EARLY-BLOOMING VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL OR GARDENING INTERESTS IN THE ADVISORY AREA SHOULD PROTECT SENSITIVE PLANTS AND CROPS. POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE. && $$
003 WWUS71 KPHI 071148 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 748 AM EDT WED MAY 7 2014 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-071300- /O.CAN.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-140507T1200Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 748 AM EDT WED MAY 7 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. THE THREAT FOR FROST HAS ENDED. $$
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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.