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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 16, 2016Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 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 16, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

451 
WWUS81 KPHI 162345
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
745 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016
 
PAZ054-055-170015-
CARBON-MONROE-
745 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN MONROE AND
NORTHEASTERN CARBON COUNTIES...

AT 745 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR STODDARTSVILLE...OR 15
MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BLAKESLEE...ALBRIGHTSVILLE...POCONO RACEWAY...LAKE HARMONY...
GOULDSBORO STATE PARK...MECKESVILLE...POCONO PINES...
LONG POND AND ARROWHEAD LAKE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4100 7537 4097 7575 4100 7576 4101 7573
      4103 7574 4105 7577 4109 7577 4113 7569
      4112 7564 4123 7554 4122 7551 4123 7551
      4124 7544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2345Z 257DEG 11KT 4109 7566 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	23 min
Jul 16, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	33 min
Jul 16, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	31 min
Jul 16, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Jul 16, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	50 min
Jul 16, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	32 min
Jul 16, 2:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	7 hr
Jul 16, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		92 min
Jul 16, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	47 min
Jul 16, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex	30 min
Jul 16, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	46 min
Jul 16, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	42 min
Jul 16, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	28 min
Jul 16, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	26 min
Jul 16, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	52 min
Jul 16, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	30 min
Jul 16, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	30 min
Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	37 min
Jul 16, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	42 min
Jul 16, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	26 min
Jul 16, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	31 min
Jul 16, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean	43 min
Jul 16, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	44 min
Jul 16, 6:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	4 hr
Jul 16, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	31 min
Jul 16, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	27 min
Jul 16, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	50 min
Jul 16, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	33 min
Jul 16, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	23 min
Jul 16, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	36 min
Jul 16, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	25 min
Jul 16, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	37 min
Jul 16, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware	33 min
Jul 16, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Delaware	3 hr
Jul 16, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	27 min
Jul 16, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	33 min
Jul 16, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	26 min
Jul 16, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	28 min
Jul 16, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	28 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.