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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 4, 2012Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2012, 4:37 AM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 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: May 4, 2012, 4:37 AM EDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2012, 5:30 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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.

143 
WWUS81 KPHI 040837
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
437 AM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012

PAZ054-055-040930-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
437 AM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARBON AND MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 433 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MOUNT POCONO TO 37 MILES WEST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST
AT 35 MPH. ONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR POCONO RACEWAY AND 
PARADISE VALLEY AROUND 445 AM...SCOTRUN AND REEDERS AROUND 500 AM... 
STORMVILLE AND NEW MAHONING AROUND 515 AM...SAYLORSBURG AND ROSSLAND 
AROUND 530 AM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS 
ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND 
LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4119 7513 4115 7514 4115 7510 4105 7502
      4085 7533 4078 7568 4073 7576 4091 7600
      4101 7575 4105 7578 4109 7577 4113 7570
      4113 7564 4121 7557 4124 7551 4125 7519

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 4:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	54 min
May 4, 5:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	64 min
May 4, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex, Warren	113 min
May 4, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	45 min
May 4, 1:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	58 min
May 4, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	15 min
May 4, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Talbot	26 min
May 4, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	38 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.