Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2016, 1:48 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2016, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2016, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2:16 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 46 | Pocono Mountains Airpor, PA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 18, 12:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted.
615
WUUS51 KPHI 181748
SVRPHI
PAC025-089-181845-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0107.160718T1748Z-160718T1845Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
148 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
NORTHEASTERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 245 PM EDT
* AT 148 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WHITE
HAVEN... OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOUNT POCONO...TOBYHANNA...WEATHERLY...SKYTOP...CHRISTMANS...
SCOTRUN...TANNERSVILLE...MOUNTAINHOME...REEDERS...POCONO PINES...
LONG POND...HERNYVILLE...ECHO LAKE...WERRY LAKE...MCMICHAEL...
MECKESVILLE...ARROWHEAD LAKE...BLAKESLEE...
CANADENSIS AND ANALOMINK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4115 7515 4114 7509 4107 7502 4090 7578
4098 7582 4101 7573 4105 7577 4109 7577
4113 7569 4112 7564 4123 7554 4122 7551
4123 7551 4125 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 254DEG 24KT 4107 7575
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
PO1 follow-up statement
899
WWUS51 KPHI 181818
SVSPHI
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
218 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016
PAC025-181827-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0107.000000T0000Z-160718T1845Z/
CARBON PA-
218 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CARBON COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
LAT...LON 4115 7515 4114 7509 4107 7502 4097 7551
4100 7549 4111 7561 4123 7554 4122 7551
4123 7551 4125 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 1817Z 249DEG 32KT 4111 7535
$$
PAC089-181845-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0107.000000T0000Z-160718T1845Z/
MONROE PA-
218 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM EDT
FOR MONROE COUNTY...
AT 217 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MOUNT
POCONO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND PENNY SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOUNT
POCONO...TOBYHANNA...SKYTOP...SCOTRUN...CANADENSIS...ANALOMINK...SUN
VALLEY...GOULDSBORO STATE
PARK...TANNERSVILLE...MOUNTAINHOME...PARADISE
VALLEY...REEDERS...POCONO PINES...LONG POND...HERNYVILLE...ECHO
LAKE...
WERRY LAKE...POCONO RACEWAY...ALPINE MOUNTAIN AND MCMICHAEL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 4115 7515 4114 7509 4107 7502 4097 7551
4100 7549 4111 7561 4123 7554 4122 7551
4123 7551 4125 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 1817Z 249DEG 32KT 4111 7535
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 43 min |
| Jul 18, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 56 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.