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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 26, 2015Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2015, 9:39 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 26, 2015, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2015, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1409 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

702 
WWUS81 KPHI 270139
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
939 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 2015
 
PAZ054-055-270215-
CARBON-MONROE-
939 PM EDT SUN JUL 26 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN CARBON AND SOUTHWESTERN 
MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 938 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER LAKE HARMONY...OR 11
MILES WEST OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PALMERTON...WIND GAP...CHRISTMANS...ROSSLAND...POCONO PINES...LONG
POND...BELTZVILLE STATE PARK...BRODHEADSVILLE...MCMICHAEL...
KUNKLETOWN...MECKESVILLE...BLAKESLEE...PENN FOREST RESERVOIR...SUN
VALLEY...JONAS...ALBRIGHTSVILLE...POCONO RACEWAY...GILBERT...LAKE
HARMONY AND KRESGEVILLE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS. A FLOOD ADVISORY HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. 
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE MORE THAN 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. 
SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4090 7524 4086 7529 4086 7532 4083 7538
      4081 7554 4079 7560 4100 7577 4101 7573
      4103 7574 4105 7577 4117 7551
TIME...MOT...LOC 0138Z 333DEG 15KT 4106 7558 
$$

JRK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	30 min
Jul 26, 8:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	4 hr
Jul 26, 8:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Sussex	4 hr
Jul 26, 10:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Sussex, Warren	7 hr
Jul 26, 10:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Warren	92 min
Jul 26, 11:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Warren	4 hr
Jul 27, 12:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon	3 hr
Jul 27, 3:19 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	3 hr
Jul 27, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex, Somerset	4 hr
Jul 27, 7:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Mercer	4 hr
Jul 26, 8:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	48 min
Jul 26, 9:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	3 hr
Jul 26, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	35 min
Jul 26, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	36 min
Jul 26, 10:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	95 min
Jul 26, 11:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Jul 27, 1:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	3 hr
Jul 27, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Queen Anne's	57 min
Jul 27, 5:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's	4 hr
Jul 27, 7:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 27, 3:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent	2 hr

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.