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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 15, 2012Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 5:58 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.

668 
WWUS81 KPHI 152158
SPSPHI

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

PAZ055-152300-
MONROE PA-
558 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012

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

AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR POCONO PINES
AROUND 605 PM...TANNERSVILLE...REEDERS...TOBYHANNA AROUND 610 PM...
MOUNT POCONO...SCOTRUN...BARTONSVILLE AROUND 615 PM...PARADISE
VALLEY...ANALOMINK AROUND 620 PM AND CRESCO AROUND 625 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.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4123 7512 4115 7514 4115 7508 4108 7503
      4091 7549 4097 7553 4099 7550 4105 7557
      4112 7562 4125 7537 4126 7513

$$

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, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	53 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.