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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 20, 2011Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 20, 2011, 2:52 AM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 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 20, 2011, 2:52 AM EDT (06:52 UTC)
Expired
May 20, 2011, 3:45 AM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2011-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 72 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2011-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

784 
WWUS81 KPHI 200652
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
252 AM EDT FRI MAY 20 2011

PAZ055-200745-
MONROE PA-
252 AM EDT FRI MAY 20 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MONROE COUNTY...

AT 250 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CANADENSIS AND
MOUNTAINHOME AROUND 300 AM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...AS WELL AS SMALL 
HAIL.

LAT...LON 4125 7513 4124 7513 4116 7515 4116 7516
      4115 7511 4109 7511 4109 7535 4125 7535
      4126 7514

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 8:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic54 min
May 19, 9:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean94 min
May 19, 11:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Warren3 hr
May 20, 2:07 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIWarren3 hr
May 20, 3:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren15 hr
May 20, 11:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Monmouth46 min
May 20, 5:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks3 hr
May 20, 6:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe65 min
May 19, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Talbot61 min
May 19, 11:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline64 min
May 19, 11:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot63 min
May 19, 9:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex61 min
May 19, 11:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex57 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.