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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2011, 1:13 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 92 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2011, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2011, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 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, 5.2 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
877
WWUS81 KPHI 071713
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
113 PM EDT SAT MAY 7 2011
PAZ054-055-062-071845-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-
113 PM EDT SAT MAY 7 2011
...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARBON...MONROE AND
NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
AT 108 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 7 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE AREA
WILL REACH BLAKESLEE AROUND 130 PM...LAKE HARMONY...POCONO PINES
AROUND 145 PM...LONG POND...POCONO RACEWAY AROUND 200
PM...REEDERS...SCOTRUN AROUND 215 PM...STROUDSBURG AND DELAWARE
WATER GAP AROUND 230 PM.
SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THE STRONGER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND
ISOLATED WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
LAT...LON 4121 7514 4116 7516 4115 7509 4109 7504
4069 7540 4095 7588 4098 7586 4101 7575
4105 7578 4110 7577 4114 7570 4113 7564
4121 7558 4124 7550
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 96 min | |
| May 7, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 90 min |
| May 7, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 64 min |
| May 7, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 85 min |
| May 7, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| May 7, 12:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 57 min |
| May 7, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 91 min |
| May 6, 9:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 58 min |
Nearby
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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.