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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 26, 2012Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2012, 3:39 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 51 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 26, 2012, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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.

580 
WWUS81 KPHI 261939
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
339 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012

PAZ055-262030-
MONROE PA-
339 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF MONROE COUNTY...

AT 335 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING SOUTH AT
10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR REEDERS...ANALOMINK AROUND 400
PM...ARLINGTON HEIGHTS AROUND 415 PM...STROUDSBURG...GILBERT...EAST
STROUDSBURG AROUND 425 PM AND BRODHEADSVILLE AROUND 430 PM.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL ARE POSSIBLE 
WITH THIS STORM.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO 
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS 
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 4097 7513 4086 7542 4111 7552 4119 7530

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	51 min
May 26, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	63 min
May 26, 2:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	58 min
May 26, 2:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex, Warren	5 hr
May 26, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	62 min
May 26, 2:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Warren	5 hr
May 26, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	48 min
May 26, 3:40 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer	23 hr
May 26, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	49 min
May 26, 5:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Warren	114 min
May 26, 6:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon	111 min
May 26, 7:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	60 min
May 26, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	45 min
May 26, 2:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon	3 hr
May 26, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	44 min
May 26, 3:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon	2 hr
May 26, 3:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monroe, Northampton	4 hr
May 26, 3:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon	3 hr
May 26, 3:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monroe	3 hr
May 26, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	39 min
May 26, 3:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Carbon	4 hr
May 26, 4:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe, Northampton	3 hr
May 26, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	38 min
May 26, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Northampton	51 min
May 26, 5:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monroe	114 min
May 26, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	43 min
May 26, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	49 min
May 26, 7:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Chester	59 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.