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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 5, 2011Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2011, 7:39 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 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
Jun 5, 2011, 7:39 PM EDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2011, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 12:00Z on 2011-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

857 
WWUS81 KPHI 052339
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
739 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2011

PAZ055-060045-
MONROE PA-
739 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2011

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

AT 736 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BLAKESLEE...TOBYHANNA AROUND
815 PM...LONG POND...POCONO RACEWAY AROUND 830 PM...REEDERS AND JONAS
AROUND 845 PM.

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

LAT...LON 4108 7515 4084 7544 4095 7555 4097 7554
      4099 7550 4111 7562 4113 7566 4115 7562
      4123 7554 4123 7552 4125 7550 4125 7545

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHILehigh61 min
Jun 5, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks61 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011

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.