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Frost Advisory 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this frost advisory at Oct 10, 2015, 3:02 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; Sussex County, New Jersey. It took effect at Oct 11, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 2015, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 11, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 19:01 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 12:00Z, 7.0 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
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
860 WWUS71 KPHI 101902 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 302 PM EDT SAT OCT 10 2015 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-111300- /O.NEW.KPHI.FR.Y.0005.151011T0600Z-151011T1300Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 302 PM EDT SAT OCT 10 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT SUNDAY. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. * TIMING...EARLY SUNDAY MORNING PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
2 follow-up statements
853 WWUS71 KPHI 110746 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 346 AM EDT SUN OCT 11 2015 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-111300- /O.CON.KPHI.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-151011T1300Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 346 AM EDT SUN OCT 11 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED. && $$
738 WWUS71 KPHI 111245 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 845 AM EDT SUN OCT 11 2015 NJZ001-PAZ054-055-111345- /O.EXP.KPHI.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-151011T1300Z/ SUSSEX-CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 845 AM EDT SUN OCT 11 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN TO THE POINT WHERE FROST IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. ANY REMAINING FROST WILL MELT SHORTLY. 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.