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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 18, 2016Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2016, 8:16 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 44 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 18, 2016, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2016-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2016-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 168 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

690 
WWUS81 KPHI 190016
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
816 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016
 
NJZ001-007-PAZ055-190100-
SUSSEX-WARREN-MONROE-
816 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016

...A THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WARREN...WEST
CENTRAL SUSSEX AND MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 816 PM EDT...A THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MOSCOW...OR 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOUNT POCONO...EAST STROUDSBURG...TOBYHANNA...DELAWARE WATER GAP...
SKYTOP...STORMVILLE...SCOTRUN...MILLBROOK...TANNERSVILLE...MOUNTAINHO
ME...
REEDERS...POCONO PINES...HERNYVILLE...ECHO LAKE...WERRY LAKE...
FLATBROOKVILLE...MCMICHAEL...CANADENSIS...ANALOMINK AND GOULDSBORO
STATE
PARK.

LAT...LON 4115 7515 4114 7509 4108 7503 4115 7490
      4109 7480 4094 7506 4099 7513 4088 7531
      4119 7557 4123 7554 4125 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 309DEG 22KT 4129 7554 
$$

PO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 10:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks48 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.