Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2024
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2024, 6:21 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 39 min. 6 reports 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
- Jun 26, 2024, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 6:47 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Wsw Lake Harmony, PA | NWS storm survey conducted on wind damage in Kidder Township near Lake Harmony. Path of snapped and uprooted trees began on Chalet Court. Along Chalet Court and Lupine Drive from Chalet to Spring Street snapped and uprooted trees caused damage to nearby reside |
| Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lake Harmony, PA | Several trees down in the Lake Harmony area. Time estimated from radar. |
| Jun 26, 6:51 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pocono Pines, PA | Multiple trees down across roads in Pocono Pines. Time estimated. |
| Jun 26, 6:51 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Pocono Pines, PA | Multiple trees down across roads in Pocono Pines. Time estimated. |
| Jun 26, 7:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 52 | Pocono Mountains Munici, PA | ASOS station KMPO Mt. Pocono. |
| Jun 26, 7:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 52 | Pocono Mountains Munici, PA | ASOS station KMPO Mt. Pocono. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1346 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
175
WUUS51 KPHI 262221
SVRPHI
PAC025-089-262300-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0057.240626T2221Z-240626T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
621 PM EDT Wed Jun 26 2024
The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Carbon County in northeastern Pennsylvania...
Northwestern Monroe County in northeastern Pennsylvania...
* Until 700 PM EDT.
* At 621 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Mountain Top,
or 9 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Emergency management.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Mount Pocono, Tobyhanna, Scotrun, Blakeslee, Long Pond, Pocono
Pines, Pocono Raceway, Lake Harmony, Gouldsboro State Park,
Arrowhead Lake, and Tannersville.
This includes the following highways...
Northeast Extension between mile markers 91 and 97.
Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 277 and 302.
Interstate 380 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 0 and 13.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
This is an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. This storm is producing
widespread wind damage across central and southern Luzerne County.
SEEK SHELTER NOW inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows!
&&
LAT...LON 4104 7530 4102 7574 4105 7577 4109 7577
4111 7571 4113 7569 4112 7565 4123 7554
4122 7551 4123 7551 4124 7546 4124 7533
TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 262DEG 32KT 4112 7596
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX WIND GUST...70 MPH
$$
RCMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 47 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.