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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 5:26 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 6, 2016, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Berks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
384 WWUS81 KPHI 062126 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 526 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 PAZ060-101-103-062200- BERKS-WESTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY- 526 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ...A SHOWER WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN CHESTER...SOUTHEASTERN BERKS AND NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES... AT 525 PM EDT...A SHOWER WAS OVER LAURELDALE...OR NEAR READING... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SHOWER. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... READING...POTTSTOWN...PHOENIXVILLE...WYOMISSING...BIRDSBORO... COLLEGEVILLE...ROYERSFORD...FLEETWOOD...SINKING SPRING... LAURELDALE...TRAPPE...LEESPORT...SCHWENKSVILLE...BECHTELSVILLE... GREEN LANE...CEDARVILLE...FAIRVIEW HGTS...CHESTER SPRINGS... SPRING MOUNT AND GILBERTSVILLE. THIS SHOWER 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 4039 7615 4049 7594 4031 7533 4007 7559 TIME...MOT...LOC 2125Z 292DEG 26KT 4038 7590 $$ SFJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 40 min |
| Aug 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 6:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 57 min | |
| Aug 6, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 26 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.