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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 14, 2011Montgomery County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 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 14, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2011, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Montgomery County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 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.

086 
WWUS81 KPHI 142146
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
546 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2011

PAZ068-070-071-142245-
DELAWARE PA-MONTGOMERY PA-PHILADELPHIA PA-
546 PM EDT TUE JUN 14 2011

...A FEW SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN 
DELAWARE...MONTGOMERY AND PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES...

AT 541 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS, WITH THE STRONGEST 19 
MILES NORTHWEST OF PHILADELPHIA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THE 
THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR NORTH WALES...SPRING HOUSE AROUND 600 
PM...AMBLER...FORT WASHINGTON AROUND 615 PM...NORRISTOWN...EAST 
NORRITON AROUND 630 PM...BRIDGEPORT AND WEST CONSHOHOCKEN AROUND 645 
PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO 
POND ON ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. AROUND A QUICK QUARTER OF 
AN INCH OF RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. 

LAT...LON 3999 7537 4035 7538 4022 7517 4001 7509

$$
 
TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 4:17 AM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more20 hr
Jun 14, 3:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMercer88 min
Jun 14, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris, Sussex84 min
Jun 14, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington88 min
Jun 14, 3:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex, Somerset84 min
Jun 14, 4:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington90 min
Jun 14, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May95 min
Jun 14, 5:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBurlington87 min
Jun 14, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHINorthampton91 min
Jun 14, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks86 min
Jun 14, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIPhiladelphia93 min
Jun 14, 5:28 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBucks85 min
Jun 14, 6:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIDelaware55 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMontgomery2 hr

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.