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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 8, 2011Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2011, 2:40 AM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 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 8, 2011, 2:40 AM EDT (06:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2011, 3:45 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Berks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 198 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2011-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 276 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2011-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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.

356 
WWUS81 KPHI 080640
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
240 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

PAZ060-080745-
BERKS PA-
240 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BERKS COUNTY...

AT 237 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LANCASTER... 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR 
WERNERSVILLE...WOMELSDORF AROUND 330 AM...WHITFIELD AND SINKING 
SPRING AROUND 345 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...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO 
GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS WELL.

LAT...LON 4058 7611 4058 7609 4059 7607 4038 7561
      4015 7586 4014 7590 4030 7614 4036 7621
      4036 7624 4042 7633

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Cape May, Cumberland80 min
Jul 7, 8:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI2 hr
Jul 7, 10:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May53 min
Jul 7, 10:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren28 min
Jul 8, 3:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more19 hr
Jul 8, 4:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon56 min
Jul 8, 12:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic57 min
Jul 8, 12:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Camden, Gloucester64 min
Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem93 min
Jul 8, 2:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren82 min
Jul 8, 2:25 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem7 hr
Jul 8, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Warren54 min
Jul 8, 2:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Mercer3 hr
Jul 8, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMercer57 min
Jul 8, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset66 min
Jul 8, 3:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMercer, Middlesex, Somerset3 hr
Jul 8, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren76 min
Jul 8, 3:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICamden3 hr
Jul 8, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren69 min
Jul 8, 4:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren3 hr
Jul 8, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren78 min
Jul 8, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden70 min
Jul 8, 5:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISussex117 min
Jul 8, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden27 min
Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer and 4 more3 hr
Jul 8, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem3 hr
Jul 8, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI58 min
Jul 8, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean77 min
Jul 8, 7:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Monmouth, Ocean3 hr
Jul 8, 7:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI64 min
Jul 8, 7:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI55 min
Jul 7, 8:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon94 min
Jul 7, 9:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon67 min
Jul 7, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Lehigh, Northampton73 min
Jul 8, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe57 min
Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMontgomery55 min
Jul 8, 3:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks, Lehigh, Northampton3 hr
Jul 8, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIPhiladelphia3 hr
Jul 8, 4:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe2 hr
Jul 8, 4:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIChester4 hr
Jul 8, 4:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot88 min
Jul 8, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot82 min
Jul 8, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot82 min
Jul 8, 6:02 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIKent, New Castle, Sussex4 hr
Jul 8, 7:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex59 min
Jul 8, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex56 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.