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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2012, 8:41 PM EDT for Carbon County, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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 22, 2012, 8:41 PM EDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 230041
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
841 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012
PAZ054-060>062-230145-
BERKS PA-CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-
841 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012
...AN AREA OF SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT BERKS...
LEHIGH...CARBON AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
AT 836 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL 6 MILES WEST OF LEHIGHTON...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR LEHIGHTON AROUND
900 PM...WEISSPORT EAST AROUND 905 PM...PARRYVILLE...WANAMAKERS
AROUND 910 PM...BOWMANSTOWN...BELTZVILLE STATE PARK AROUND 915 PM...
JORDAN VALLEY...NEW TRIPOLI AROUND 925 PM AND EMERALD AROUND 935 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS SHOWER...AND AS MUCH AS ONE AND
ONE-HALF INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS MUCH
RAIN WOULD CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE
DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
LAT...LON 4070 7540 4049 7572 4068 7591 4074 7577
4084 7592 4087 7595 4103 7571
$$
HAYES/CARDINALEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 54 min |
| May 23, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Somerset | 62 min |
| May 23, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 2 hr |
| May 22, 8:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh | 55 min |
| May 23, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 113 min |
| May 23, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Northampton | 113 min |
| May 23, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 65 min |
| May 23, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 94 min |
| May 23, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 54 min |
| May 23, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 63 min |
| May 23, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 110 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.