Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Special Weather Statements in 2011

Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 8, 2011Carbon County, Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2011, 5:06 PM EDT for Carbon County, Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 84 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 8, 2011, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 2011-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 166 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 2011-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 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
166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 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.

155 
WWUS81 KPHI 082106
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
506 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2011

PAZ054-055-061-062-082230-
CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-
506 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2011

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

AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTH OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WEATHERLY AROUND 500 PM...
CHRISTMANS...ALBRIGHTSVILLE AROUND 515 PM...PENN FOREST RESERVOIR...
BELTZVILLE STATE PARK AROUND 530 PM...GILBERT...BRODHEADSVILLE AROUND
545 PM...ROSSLAND AND CHAPMAN AROUND 600 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 DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THIS 
STORM.

LAT...LON 4083 7511 4059 7559 4094 7592 4098 7584
      4101 7575 4105 7578 4107 7578 4110 7577
      4112 7573

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon32 min
Aug 8, 6:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery86 min

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.