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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 15, 2016, 6:55 PM EDT for Carbon County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 35 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
- May 15, 2016, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Carbon County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
870
WWUS81 KPHI 152255
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
655 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 2016
NJZ007-PAZ054-055-061-062-152330-
WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-NORTHAMPTON-LEHIGH-
655 PM EDT SUN MAY 15 2016
...SHOWERS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN WARREN...WESTERN HUNTERDON...
NORTHAMPTON...NORTHEASTERN LEHIGH...SOUTHWESTERN MONROE...NORTHERN
BUCKS AND SOUTHEASTERN CARBON COUNTIES...
AT 654 PM EDT...SHOWERS WITH GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL WERE OVER
LEHIGHTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
SHOWERS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EASTON...LEHIGHTON...BETHLEHEM...FORKS...NORTHAMPTON...WILSON...NAZARETH...
PALMERTON...JIM THORPE...SLATINGTON...WIND GAP...BATH...HARMONY...ALPHA...
WALNUTPORT...BELFAST...WEST EASTON...TATAMY...RIEGELSVILLE AND STEUBEN.
LAT...LON 4081 7505 4063 7514 4059 7518 4061 7520
4059 7525 4079 7584 4096 7577
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 289DEG 35KT 4085 7572
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:59 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 17 hr |
| May 15, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Passaic | 16 min |
| May 15, 2:59 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 17 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.