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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 4, 2012Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 4, 2012, 6:29 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 4, 2012, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

613 
WWUS81 KPHI 042229
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
629 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

PAZ055-042330-
MONROE PA-
629 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

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

AT 628 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCRANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SKYTOP...CANADENSIS AROUND
715 PM...ALPINE MOUNTAIN AND HERNYVILLE AROUND 730 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...AS IT SMALL HAIL.

LAT...LON 4125 7512 4115 7514 4115 7508 4109 7503
      4098 7520 4124 7546 4126 7520 4126 7513

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 3:39 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer	12 hr
Jul 4, 3:39 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Middlesex and 5 more	15 hr
Jul 4, 6:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	38 min
Jul 4, 7:09 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more	8 hr
Jul 4, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	63 min
Jul 4, 6:33 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	PHI	Kent, Sussex	25 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.