Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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.
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
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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
$$
NIERENBERGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 9:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery | 86 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.