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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 14, 2012Chester County, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; New Castle County, Delaware; Cecil County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2012, 8:06 AM EDT for Chester County, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; New Castle County, Delaware; Cecil County, Maryland. It was in force for 84 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 14, 2012, 8:06 AM EDT (12:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2012, 9:30 AM EDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties New Castle County, DE, Cecil County, MD, Chester County, PA, Lehigh County, PA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 1166 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 7.9

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The text

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

981 
WWUS81 KPHI 141206
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
806 AM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

DEZ001-MDZ008-012-PAZ060-061-067-068-070-141330-
BERKS PA-CECIL MD-CHESTER PA-DELAWARE PA-KENT MD-LEHIGH PA-
MONTGOMERY PA-NEW CASTLE DE-
806 AM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BERKS...CECIL...CHESTER...
DELAWARE...KENT...LEHIGH...MONTGOMERY AND NEW CASTLE COUNTIES...

AT 802 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF
READING TO 13 MILES EAST OF LANCASTER TO 17 MILES WEST OF NEWARK TO 
12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 

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 AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 3974 7610 3988 7600 4003 7594 4011 7595
      4014 7589 4026 7605 4064 7556 3998 7543
      3971 7550 3962 7560 3960 7560 3964 7557
      3936 7573 3934 7610 3938 7610 3943 7600
      3952 7599 3956 7610 3973 7614

$$

FORECASTER: HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 14, 9:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	38 min
Aug 14, 9:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer	91 min
Aug 14, 10:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	83 min
Aug 14, 11:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	3 hr
Aug 14, 2:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	78 min
Aug 14, 3:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	2 hr
Aug 14, 6:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	88 min
Aug 14, 7:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh	95 min
Aug 14, 8:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery	2 hr
Aug 14, 9:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	108 min
Aug 14, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware	63 min
Aug 14, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	60 min
Aug 14, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	56 min
Aug 14, 2:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent	79 min
Aug 14, 2:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, New Castle	2 hr
Aug 14, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	38 min
Aug 14, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	53 min
Aug 14, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	66 min
Aug 14, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	61 min
Aug 14, 7:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	63 min
Aug 14, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Queen Anne's	58 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.