Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2012, 6:02 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 58 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 27, 2012, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
019
WWUS81 KPHI 272202
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
602 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012
PAZ054-272300-
CARBON PA-
602 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012
...A THUNDERSTORM WITH DOWNPOURS WILL AFFECT CARBON COUNTY...
AT 554 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR TRESCKOW AROUND 630 PM...
BEAVER MEADOWS AROUND 635 PM...LANSFORD AROUND 645 PM...
WEATHERLY...EAST SIDE...NESQUEHONING AND SUMMIT HILL AROUND 650 PM
AND THEN NEW MAHONING AROUND 700 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
LAT...LON 4099 7550 4094 7557 4082 7547 4078 7568
4074 7577 4091 7599 4099 7583 4101 7575
4103 7574 4105 7578 4109 7577 4113 7567
$$
FORECASTER:POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 10:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 91 min |
| Jul 26, 11:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 107 min |
| Jul 26, 11:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 11:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 12:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 58 min |
| Jul 27, 12:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 117 min |
| Jul 26, 10:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 59 min |
| Jul 26, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 96 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.