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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 6:25 PM EDT for Delaware County, Montgomery County, Philadelphia 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
- Aug 6, 2016, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Delaware County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.
906 WWUS81 KPHI 062225 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 625 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 NJZ017-018-PAZ070-071-101>106-062300- GLOUCESTER-CAMDEN-WESTERN CHESTER-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-PHILADELPHIA-EASTERN MONTGOMERY-LOWER BUCKS-EASTERN CHESTER-DELAWARE-UPPER BUCKS- 625 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INTO SOUTH JERSEY... AT 624 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER TRAPPE...OR 16 MILES NORTH OF WEST CHESTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...HEAVY RAIN...AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PHILADELPHIA...CAMDEN...BENSALEM...NORRISTOWN...CHESTER... POTTSTOWN...PHOENIXVILLE...LANSDALE...WEST NORRITON... EAST NORRITON...YEADON...CONSHOHOCKEN...HATBORO...SOUDERTON... FOLCROFT...AMBLER...SWARTHMORE...PAULSBORO... COLLEGEVILLE AND ROYERSFORD. 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 4041 7551 4012 7493 3980 7529 4014 7577 TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 301DEG 35KT 4019 7550 $$ 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, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 34 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.