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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2011Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2011, 7:32 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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 28, 2011, 7:32 PM EDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Berks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 2011-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 212 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2011-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

497 
WWUS81 KPHI 282332
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
732 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2011

PAZ060-067-068-290030-
BERKS PA-CHESTER PA-MONTGOMERY PA-
732 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BERKS...CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY
COUNTIES...

AT 730 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF READING...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR AMITY GARDENS AROUND 745 PM...
CEDARVILLE...KENILWORTH AROUND 800 PM...SANATOGA...ROYERSFORD AROUND
815 PM AND PHOENIXVILLE AROUND 830 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG
WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4041 7618 4042 7550 4006 7547 4013 7590
      4018 7595 4023 7603

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 10:08 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem82 min
Jun 28, 11:19 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean56 min
Jun 28, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Cape May97 min
Jun 28, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks58 min
Jun 28, 9:17 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil58 min
Jun 28, 7:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot64 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.