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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 24, 2012Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2012, 4:07 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 83 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 24, 2012, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
83 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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, 8.1 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2012-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 302 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2012-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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.

209 
WWUS81 KPHI 242007
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
407 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2012

PAZ054-055-242130-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
407 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2012

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

AT 403 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT POCONO TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING 
NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR ECHO 
LAKE...REEDERS AROUND 415 PM...PENN FOREST RESERVOIR...
SCOTRUN AROUND 430 PM...MOUNTAINHOME...MOUNTAINHOME 
AROUND 445 PM...GOULDSBORO STATE PARK AND EAST SIDE
AROUND 500 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.

IF YOU SEE THREATENING WEATHER, PLEASE MOVE INDOORS QUICKLY.

LAT...LON 4118 7514 4115 7514 4115 7512 4105 7502
      4100 7511 4096 7512 4093 7521 4087 7528
      4078 7568 4073 7576 4091 7600 4101 7575
      4105 7578 4109 7577 4113 7570 4113 7564
      4124 7551 4125 7521

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 12:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden, Gloucester53 min
May 24, 1:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester94 min
May 24, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden, Gloucester38 min
May 24, 1:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington56 min
May 24, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden48 min
May 24, 1:36 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBurlington84 min
May 24, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Mercer, Monmouth43 min
May 24, 1:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington89 min
May 24, 2:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer83 min
May 24, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer52 min
May 24, 2:21 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Somerset97 min
May 24, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Mercer29 min
May 24, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer54 min
May 24, 3:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Warren91 min
May 24, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Somerset67 min
May 24, 4:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren97 min
May 24, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIDelaware, Philadelphia63 min
May 24, 2:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIDelaware, Montgomery64 min
May 24, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks, Lehigh66 min
May 24, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Lehigh, Northampton59 min
May 24, 3:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks, Montgomery57 min
May 24, 4:00 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICarbon, Monroe67 min
May 24, 4:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil56 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.