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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 19, 2011Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2011, 4:50 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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 19, 2011, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

985 
WWUS81 KPHI 192050
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
450 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

NJZ001-007-PAZ055-062-192145-
MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
450 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MONROE...NORTHAMPTON...SUSSEX
AND WARREN COUNTIES...

AT 446 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTH OF EASTON...MOVING NORTH AT 20
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR PORTLAND...COLUMBIA AROUND 455
PM...DELAWARE WATER GAP...DELAWARE WATER GAP...STORMVILLE...
BLAIRSTOWN AROUND 505 PM...STROUDSBURG AROUND 510 PM...EAST
STROUDSBURG...ARLINGTON HEIGHTS AROUND 515 PM AND ANALOMINK AROUND
525 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS 
WELL AS HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND 
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON.

LAT...LON 4124 7513 4116 7516 4115 7509 4109 7503
      4111 7495 4116 7490 4090 7493 4083 7524
      4091 7534 4125 7531 4126 7514

$$

ROBERTSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Morris	4 days
May 19, 3:35 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Essex, Morris, Passaic	4 days
May 19, 10:26 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Essex, Passaic	65 hr
May 19, 10:28 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Passaic	11 hr
May 19, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	56 min
May 19, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	56 min
May 19, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	3 hr
May 19, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	67 min
May 19, 3:34 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PHI		12 hr
May 19, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	53 min
May 19, 3:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	5 hr
May 19, 3:52 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more	8 hr
May 19, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	58 min
May 19, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	54 min
May 19, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	55 min
May 19, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	59 min
May 19, 4:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	4 hr
May 19, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	50 min
May 19, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	54 min
May 19, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
May 19, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	47 min
May 19, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	52 min
May 19, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester	56 min
May 19, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden	55 min
May 19, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	89 min
May 19, 1:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	5 hr
May 19, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	61 min
May 19, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	41 min
May 19, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	3 hr
May 19, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	60 min
May 19, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	55 min
May 19, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	63 min
May 19, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	60 min
May 19, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	57 min
May 19, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks	62 min
May 19, 7:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Montgomery, Philadelphia	82 min
May 18, 9:10 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	11 hr
May 18, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	59 min
May 19, 12:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	94 min
May 19, 12:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	32 min
May 19, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	66 min
May 19, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	60 min
May 19, 1:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	6 hr
May 19, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	51 min
May 19, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	88 min
May 19, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent	62 min
May 19, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	46 min
May 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	34 min
May 19, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	29 min
May 19, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	53 min
May 19, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	30 min
May 19, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	18 min
May 19, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.