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 28, 2011, 12:36 AM 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 28, 2011, 12:36 AM EDT (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2011, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 245 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.
966
WWUS81 KPHI 280436
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1236 AM EDT SAT MAY 28 2011
PAZ054-061-280530-
CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-
1236 AM EDT SAT MAY 28 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARBON AND LEHIGH COUNTIES...
AT 1233 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING NORTH AT
30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR NEW MAHONING...NESQUEHONING
AROUND 1245 AM...WEATHERLY...WHITE HAVEN AROUND 100 AM AND EAST SIDE
AROUND 115 AM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 4113 7565 4069 7583 4070 7585 4072 7582
4076 7581 4083 7592 4097 7587 4101 7575
4105 7578 4110 7577 4114 7570 4114 7568
$$
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, 11:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 54 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, 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.