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 Aug 1, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 1, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 897 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
290
WWUS81 KPHI 011903
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
303 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
PAZ054-055-012000-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
303 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...A DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARBON
AND MONROE COUNTIES...
AT 301 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT
POCONO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
ANALOMINK...TOBYHANNA AROUND 315 PM...PARADISE VALLEY...CRESCO
AROUND 330 PM...MOUNTAINHOME...MOUNTAINHOME AROUND 345 PM...
CANADENSIS AND SKYTOP AROUND 400 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.
LAT...LON 4123 7512 4115 7514 4115 7508 4111 7505
4085 7542 4113 7568 4114 7566 4113 7564
4119 7558 4124 7550 4126 7513
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 9:51 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 5 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:24 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 10:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland | 73 min |
| Aug 1, 12:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 107 min |
| Aug 1, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 1:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 2:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 3:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:31 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 11 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 5:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 102 min |
| Aug 1, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 6:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 1:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 4:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 67 min |
| Aug 1, 5:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 12 min |
| Aug 1, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe | 106 min |
| Aug 1, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 5:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 100 min |
| Aug 1, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe, Northampton | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 69 min |
| Aug 1, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Northampton | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 1:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 86 min |
| Aug 1, 1:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 1:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 58 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.