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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 15, 2012Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 5:07 PM 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: Jul 15, 2012, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 912 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 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.

274 
WWUS81 KPHI 152107
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
507 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012

PAZ054-055-152200-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
507 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CARBON AND MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WEATHERLY AROUND 515 PM...JIM
THORPE...LEHIGHTON AROUND 520 PM...WEISSPORT EAST...WEISSPORT...
PARRYVILLE...BOWMANSTOWN AROUND 525 PM...PALMERTON AROUND 530 PM...
BELTZVILLE STATE PARK AROUND 535 PM AND CHRISTMANS AROUND 540 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR OVER AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS
EARLIER. BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH SMALL 
HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4095 7516 4093 7521 4089 7525 4080 7553
      4078 7568 4073 7576 4091 7600 4094 7595
      4101 7575 4103 7574 4105 7577 4124 7543
      4125 7536

$$

FORECASTER: AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 3:44 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris and 1 more	4 days
Jul 15, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	59 min
Jul 15, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	61 min
Jul 15, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jul 15, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		24 min
Jul 15, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	56 min
Jul 15, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Somerset	61 min
Jul 15, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	39 min
Jul 15, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	59 min
Jul 15, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks	56 min
Jul 15, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	64 min
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	55 min
Jul 15, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks	61 min
Jul 15, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	62 min
Jul 15, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon	62 min
Jul 15, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	65 min
Jul 15, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Bucks	62 min
Jul 15, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	58 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.