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, 7:00 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 60 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, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 230 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.
589
WWUS81 KPHI 272300
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
700 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012
PAZ054-055-061-062-280000-
CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-
700 PM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012
...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARBON...LEHIGH...MONROE
AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
AT 652 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CHRISTMANS...ALBRIGHTSVILLE...
WEISSPORT AROUND 705 PM...PARRYVILLE AROUND 710 PM...BELTZVILLE
STATE PARK...MECKESVILLE...BOWMANSTOWN AROUND 715 PM...PENN FOREST
RESERVOIR AND JONAS AROUND 720 PM.
YOU CAN EXPECT A FEW DOWNPOURS AND SOME LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. GO
INDOORS IF YOU HEAR THUNDER.
LAT...LON 4100 7517 4059 7549 4089 7593 4099 7581
4101 7574 4103 7575 4106 7572
$$
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, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 58 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 |
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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.