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 Oct 4, 2012, 12:56 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 64 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
- Oct 4, 2012, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
348
WWUS81 KPHI 041656
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1256 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
PAZ054-055-060-061-041800-
BERKS PA-CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-MONROE PA-
1256 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
...SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT BERKS...LEHIGH...MONROE
AND CARBON COUNTIES...
AT 1254 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF WILKES-BARRE TO 19 MILES NORTH OF READING...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR WEATHERLY...SHOEMAKERSVILLE...
LANSFORD...HAMBURG AROUND 100 PM...SUMMIT HILL...NESQUEHONING AROUND
105 PM...NEW MAHONING...LENHARTSVILLE AROUND 115 PM...WANAMAKERS AND
ARROWHEAD LAKE AROUND 120 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE SHOWERS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER
TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS.
LAT...LON 4125 7533 4081 7553 4078 7560 4072 7557
4050 7567 4044 7626 4054 7619 4058 7602
4065 7599 4074 7577 4088 7597 4091 7598
4093 7596 4101 7575 4109 7577 4113 7570
4113 7564 4123 7554
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 71 min |
| Oct 4, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 53 min |
| Oct 4, 3:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 92 min |
| Oct 4, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 79 min |
| Oct 4, 4:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris | 94 min |
| Oct 4, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe | 50 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.