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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 11, 2011Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 5:21 AM EDT for Berks 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: Jun 11, 2011, 5:21 AM EDT (09:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2011, 6:15 AM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Berks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 961 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1650 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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.

526 
WWUS81 KPHI 110921
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
521 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

PAZ060-067-111015-
BERKS PA-CHESTER PA-
521 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BERKS AND CHESTER COUNTIES...

AT 517 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 25 MILES WEST OF
READING TO 17 MILES NORTH OF LANCASTER TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
WOMELSDORF AROUND 600 AM...STRAUSSTOWN AND WERNERSVILLE AROUND 615
AM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...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 POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4053 7634 4052 7630 4054 7621 4058 7584
      4037 7573 4004 7562 4004 7595 4011 7595
      4014 7590 4036 7621 4036 7624 4047 7640
      4050 7644

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 11:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	60 min
Jun 11, 12:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	53 min
Jun 11, 12:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Morris, Sussex	3 hr
Jun 11, 1:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Union	65 min
Jun 11, 4:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	67 min
Jun 11, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester	49 min
Jun 11, 3:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	93 min
Jun 11, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester	47 min
Jun 11, 4:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic	85 min
Jun 11, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	47 min
Jun 11, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		44 min
Jun 11, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	51 min
Jun 11, 1:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	57 min
Jun 11, 2:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh	58 min
Jun 11, 3:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Lehigh, Northampton	64 min
Jun 11, 3:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	3 hr
Jun 11, 3:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	57 min
Jun 11, 6:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Chester	58 min
Jun 11, 6:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	63 min
Jun 11, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	44 min
Jun 11, 5:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Sussex	67 min
Jun 11, 6:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	56 min
Jun 11, 6:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	113 min
Jun 11, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	47 min
Jun 11, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	55 min
Jun 11, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	66 min
Jun 11, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	39 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	48 min
Jun 11, 5:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent	63 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.