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Areal Flood Advisory 123, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 7, 2020, 6:49 AM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2020, 6:49 AM EDT (10:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2020, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Berks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Aug 7, 6:15 AM EDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:15 AM EDT, 34 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 7, 3:09 AM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 7, 5:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 6:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Mercer | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Aug 7, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Aug 7, 7:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 9:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 11:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 2:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 5:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 5 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 7:10 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PHI | Delaware | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 6:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 4 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 5 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:28 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | PHI | New Castle | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.