Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2020, 2:28 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 28 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 6, 2020, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2020, 2:56 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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 6, 2:34 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Mount Pocono, PA | DOWNED TREE LIMBS AND WIRES NEAR DEVILS HOLE ROAD IN PARADISE TWP. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
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 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
821
WUUS51 KPHI 061828
SVRPHI
PAC089-061915-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0112.200706T1828Z-200706T1915Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
228 PM EDT Mon Jul 6 2020
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Monroe County in northeastern Pennsylvania...
* Until 315 PM EDT.
* At 228 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Mountainhome to Analomink, moving southeast at
5 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Wind damage to
roofs, siding, trees, and power lines is possible.
* Locations impacted include...
Mount Pocono, East Stroudsburg, Henryville, Analomink, Skytop,
Tannersville, Canadensis, Mountainhome, Alpine Mountain, Scotrun,
Paradise Valley, Stroudsburg, Cresco, Arlington Heights,
Bartonsville and Marshalls Creek.
This includes Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 301
and 309.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Protecting yourself from immediate threats to life and safety shall
take priority. Whenever possible, as long as it does not cause
greater harm, all COVID-19 protective action guidance should be
followed.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
In addition to large hail and damaging winds, frequent cloud to
ground lightning is occurring with these storms. Move indoors
immediately. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough
to be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 4125 7513 4115 7515 4114 7509 4110 7505
4095 7526 4124 7545 4125 7518
TIME...MOT...LOC 1828Z 319DEG 5KT 4120 7533 4107 7520
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
Robertson1 follow-up statement
863
WWUS51 KPHI 061856
SVSPHI
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
256 PM EDT Mon Jul 6 2020
PAC089-061906-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0112.000000T0000Z-200706T1915Z/
Monroe PA-
256 PM EDT Mon Jul 6 2020
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled. However gusty winds and
heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM EDT for
northeastern Pennsylvania.
LAT...LON 4125 7513 4115 7515 4114 7509 4110 7505
4095 7526 4124 7545 4125 7518
TIME...MOT...LOC 1855Z 319DEG 5KT 4117 7530 4104 7517
$$
RobertsonThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:16 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 12 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 12:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 8 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 2:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 2:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 2:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 66 min |
| Jul 6, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 2:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Philadelphia | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 2:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Northampton | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 4:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 114 min |
| Jul 6, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 5:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 119 min |
| Jul 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 6:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 109 min |
| Jul 6, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 69 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.