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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 6:14 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2016, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:30 PM EDT | HAIL 0.25 | Summit Hill, PA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
830
WWUS81 KPHI 012214
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
614 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016
PAZ054-012300-
CARBON-
614 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN NORTHAMPTON...
NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH...SOUTHWESTERN MONROE AND CARBON COUNTIES...
AT 614 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NESQUEHONING...OR NEAR
TAMAQUA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEHIGHTON...PALMERTON...JIM THORPE...NESQUEHONING...WEATHERLY...
CHRISTMANS...NEW MAHONING...PENN FOREST RESERVOIR...
BELTZVILLE STATE PARK...LANSFORD...SUMMIT HILL...BOWMANSTOWN...
PARRYVILLE...WEISSPORT...WEISSPORT EAST AND TRACHSVILLE.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 4096 7555 4095 7557 4083 7548 4078 7562
4078 7567 4075 7573 4073 7576 4081 7587
4087 7594 4104 7564
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 312DEG 12KT 4085 7586
$$
JJMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Somerset | 4 hr |
| Jul 31, 8:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 7:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 87 min |
| Aug 1, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 64 min | |
| Aug 1, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 64 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 10:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 57 min |
| Jul 31, 11:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 37 min |
| Aug 1, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 22 min |
| Aug 1, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 94 min |
| Aug 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Queen Anne's, Talbot | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 84 min |
| Aug 1, 6:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.