Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Frost Advisories in 2015
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at May 22, 2015, 3:35 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 23, 2015, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2015, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 23, 2015, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 23, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- 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 19:35 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
890 WWUS71 KPHI 221935 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 335 PM EDT FRI MAY 22 2015 PAZ054-055-230345- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.150523T0700Z-150523T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 335 PM EDT FRI MAY 22 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT SATURDAY. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. * TIMING...EARLY MORNING HOURS SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
3 follow-up statements
503 WWUS71 KPHI 230324 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1124 PM EDT FRI MAY 22 2015 PAZ054-055-231200- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.150523T0700Z-150523T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 1124 PM EDT FRI MAY 22 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 8 AM EDT SATURDAY... * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. * TIMING...EARLY MORNING HOURS SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
411 WWUS71 KPHI 230759 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 359 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 2015 PAZ054-055-231200- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150523T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 359 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID-30S. * TIMING...EARLY THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE PLANTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
248 WWUS71 KPHI 231140 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 740 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 2015 PAZ054-055-231245- /O.EXP.KPHI.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150523T1200Z/ CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 740 AM EDT SAT MAY 23 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AND ANY FROST WILL CONTINUE TO MELT AWAY. THEREFORE THE FROST ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.