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 28, 2012, 5:14 PM EDT for Northampton 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 28, 2012, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
025 WWUS81 KPHI 282114 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 514 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012 NJZ007-PAZ055-062-282215- MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-WARREN NJ- 514 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MONROE...NORTHAMPTON AND WARREN COUNTIES... AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WIND GAP...PEN ARGYL AROUND 530 PM...BANGOR...EAST BANGOR AROUND 545 PM...BELVIDERE AND ROXBURG AROUND 600 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 AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4096 7520 4080 7499 4070 7541 4088 7547 $$ HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 90 min |
| Jul 28, 11:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 12:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 39 min |
| Jul 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 44 min |
| Jul 28, 12:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 12:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| Jul 28, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 1:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Jul 28, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 54 min |
| Jul 28, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 2:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 42 min | |
| Jul 28, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Jul 28, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 3:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Warren | 81 min |
| Jul 28, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Jul 28, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 4:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 54 min |
| Jul 28, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 67 min | |
| Jul 28, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 5:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Jul 28, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 6:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more | 99 min |
| Jul 28, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Jul 28, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 11:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 12:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 12:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 5:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 5:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 5:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Northampton | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 7:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 116 min |
| Jul 28, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 4:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cecil | 95 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.