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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 15, 2012, 2:44 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 61 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 15, 2012, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2012, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
606
WWUS81 KPHI 151844
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
244 PM EDT MON OCT 15 2012
PAZ054-055-060>062-151945-
BERKS PA-CARBON PA-LEHIGH PA-MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-
244 PM EDT MON OCT 15 2012
...SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT BERKS...LEHIGH...MONROE...
CARBON AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
AT 241 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES
NORTH OF LEHIGHTON TO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEHIGHTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR ARROWHEAD LAKE...
WANAMAKERS AROUND 255 PM...NEW TRIPOLI...BLAKESLEE...LANSFORD AROUND
300 PM...NEW MAHONING...JORDAN VALLEY...SUMMIT HILL...NESQUEHONING
AROUND 305 PM AND NEFFS AROUND 310 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE SHOWERS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER
TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE STRONGER
SHOWERS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY AROUND ONE THIRD OF AN INCH OF RAIN
IN ABOUT AN HOUR.
LAT...LON 4069 7544 4059 7601 4065 7599 4074 7577
4087 7596 4096 7589 4101 7574 4105 7578
4109 7577 4114 7566 4113 7564 4118 7557
4124 7543 4126 7520
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 87 min |
| Oct 15, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 87 min |
| Oct 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 88 min |
| Oct 15, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 80 min |
| Oct 15, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 117 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.