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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 3, 2011Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2011, 7:02 PM EDT for Carbon 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: Jul 3, 2011, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Carbon County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

266 
WWUS81 KPHI 032302
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
702 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2011

PAZ054-055-060-061-040000-
BERKS PA-CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-MONROE PA-
702 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BERKS...CARBON...LEHIGH AND
MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 659 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING SOUTH AT
20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WEATHERLY...CHRISTMANS AROUND
715 PM...JIM THORPE...NESQUEHONING AROUND 730 PM...LEHIGHTON...
WEISSPORT AROUND 745 PM...JORDAN VALLEY AND EMERALD AROUND 800 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.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4110 7568 4083 7543 4079 7561 4079 7562
      4074 7561 4073 7563 4066 7586 4068 7590
      4074 7578 4084 7594 4093 7596 4100 7575
      4105 7578 4108 7577

$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 9:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren	82 min
Jul 3, 11:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Ocean and 3 more	52 min
Jul 3, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	58 min
Jul 3, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	49 min
Jul 3, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex, Warren	68 min
Jul 3, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	72 min
Jul 3, 3:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Warren	4 hr
Jul 3, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	56 min
Jul 3, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	65 min
Jul 3, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	56 min
Jul 3, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	51 min
Jul 3, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	63 min
Jul 3, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	66 min
Jul 3, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		94 min
Jul 3, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	55 min
Jul 3, 9:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	86 min
Jul 3, 3:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	5 hr
Jul 3, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	56 min
Jul 3, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	62 min
Jul 3, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	59 min
Jul 3, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Talbot	60 min
Jul 3, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	57 min
Jul 3, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	54 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.