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 Sep 6, 2012, 9:01 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 89 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
- Sep 6, 2012, 9:01 PM EDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2012, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 00:00Z, 1.0 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
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
341
WWUS81 KPHI 070101
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
901 PM EDT THU SEP 6 2012
PAZ055-070230-
MONROE PA-
901 PM EDT THU SEP 6 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MONROE COUNTY...
AT 859 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF SCRANTON...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR TOBYHANNA...POCONO PINES AROUND
930 PM...LAKE IN THE CLOUDS...MOUNT POCONO AROUND 945 PM...SKYTOP...
CANADENSIS AROUND 1000 PM...WERRY LAKE AND HIDDEN LAKE AROUND 1015
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 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 4123 7512 4115 7514 4115 7508 4110 7504
4109 7501 4102 7507 4099 7513 4097 7512
4097 7514 4117 7560 4123 7554 4124 7551
4126 7513
$$
NIERENBERGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:35 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | PHI | 18 hr | |
| Sep 7, 3:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 33 hr | |
| Sep 6, 10:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 119 min |
| Sep 6, 11:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 65 min |
| Sep 7, 1:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 2 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 81 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012Every 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.