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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 4, 2012Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 4:49 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 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 4, 2012, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 2028 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

836 
WWUS81 KPHI 042049
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
449 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012

PAZ054-055-042145-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-
449 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARBON AND MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 445 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING NORTH AT 
10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR PENN FOREST RESERVOIR AND 
KRESGEVILLE AROUND 500 PM...CHRISTMANS AND JONAS AROUND 515 
PM...ALBRIGHTSVILLE AND MECKESVILLE AROUND 530 PM...AND LAKE HARMONY 
AND BLAKESLEE AROUND 545 PM.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE IN THE POCONO 
REGION.

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 4115 7516 4114 7508 4108 7503 4109 7497
      4087 7528 4083 7539 4078 7568 4074 7575
      4080 7586 4091 7599 4100 7576 4103 7574
      4105 7577 4110 7577 4113 7570 4113 7564
      4123 7551 4125 7513

$$

IOVINO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	34 min
Aug 4, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	62 min
Aug 4, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
Aug 4, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	67 min
Aug 4, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	54 min
Aug 4, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		38 min
Aug 4, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Somerset	63 min
Aug 4, 3:47 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		39 hr
Aug 4, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	59 min
Aug 4, 5:30 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		4 hr
Aug 4, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Philadelphia	63 min
Aug 4, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	44 min
Aug 4, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Northampton	54 min
Aug 4, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lebanon	65 min
Aug 4, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	52 min
Aug 4, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	57 min
Aug 4, 2:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	New Castle	105 min
Aug 4, 3:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	57 min
Aug 4, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	28 min
Aug 4, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	53 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.