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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 7, 2011Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 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
Aug 7, 2011, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

737 
WWUS81 KPHI 071907
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
307 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011

NJZ013-015-018>020-027-PAZ068-069-071-071930-
BUCKS PA-CAMDEN NJ-MERCER NJ-MONTGOMERY PA-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON 
NJ-OCEAN NJ-PHILADELPHIA PA-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-WESTERN 
MONMOUTH NJ-
307 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011

...A THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BUCKS...BURLINGTON...CAMDEN... 
MERCER...MONMOUTH...MONTGOMERY...OCEAN AND PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES...

AT 303 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF PHILADELPHIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR RIVERSIDE...DELANCO...EDGEWATER 
PARK...BEVERLY AROUND 310 PM...WILLINGBORO...EDGEWATER 
PARK...CROYDON...HULMEVILLE AROUND 315 PM...LUMBERTON AND BURLINGTON 
AROUND 320 PM.

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

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE DEVELOPING SHORTLY TO THE EAST AND 
NORTH OF PHILADELPHIA AND HEADING INTO WEST CENTRAL NEW JERSEY. 

STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY A LIGHTNING STRIKE AND GUSTY WEST WIND 
TO 30 MPH. 

LAT...LON 4027 7458 3991 7453 3995 7509 4021 7523

$$

FORECASTER:  DRAG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 8:49 PM EDTFlood WatchPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren9 hr
Aug 6, 10:33 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIWarren6 hr
Aug 7, 12:42 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris63 min
Aug 7, 1:32 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Warren3 hr
Aug 7, 1:54 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren3 hr
Aug 7, 3:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon64 min
Aug 7, 4:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Somerset60 min
Aug 7, 5:10 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMorris, Somerset81 min
Aug 7, 5:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMercer, Middlesex60 min
Aug 7, 6:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WatchPHISussex, Warren14 hr
Aug 7, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMercer35 min
Aug 7, 3:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren26 min
Aug 7, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean27 min
Aug 7, 4:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonmouth41 min
Aug 7, 5:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex28 min
Aug 7, 6:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex41 min
Aug 7, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex49 min
Aug 7, 7:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex25 min
Aug 6, 10:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks84 min
Aug 6, 10:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIPike61 min
Aug 7, 12:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMontgomery57 min
Aug 7, 2:29 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh, Northampton3 hr
Aug 7, 7:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe40 min
Aug 7, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil28 min
Aug 7, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil40 min
Aug 7, 5:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil36 min
Aug 7, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent29 min

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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.