Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2011, 11:06 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 54 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 27, 2011, 11:06 PM EDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
168
WWUS81 KPHI 280306
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1106 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011
PAZ054-055-280400-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
1106 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARBON AND MONROE COUNTIES...
AT 1104 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BEAVER MEADOWS...TRESCKOW
AROUND 1115 PM...WEATHERLY...JIM THORPE AROUND 1130 PM...EAST SIDE...
WHITE HAVEN AROUND 1145 PM...BLAKESLEE AND LAKE HARMONY AROUND
MIDNIGHT.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 4107 7538 4079 7586 4090 7600 4092 7599
4095 7588 4098 7586 4100 7575 4103 7576
4105 7578 4110 7577 4114 7570 4113 7564
4121 7557
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 49 min |
| May 28, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 39 min |
| May 28, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Union | 26 min |
| May 28, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 32 min |
| May 27, 9:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 62 min |
| May 27, 11:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 63 min |
| May 28, 12:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 53 min |
| May 28, 12:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 54 min |
| May 28, 1:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 61 min |
| May 27, 10:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 67 min |
| May 28, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 54 min |
| May 28, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 48 min |
| May 28, 2:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 99 min |
| May 28, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 38 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.