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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2016, 4:08 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 min. 4 reports 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 16, 2016, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Berks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 16, 4:52 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 48 | Reading Regional Airpor, PA | |
| Aug 16, 5:05 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | West Reading, PA | FEW TREES DOWN |
| Aug 16, 5:06 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Perry Twp, PA | FEW TREES DOWN |
| Aug 16, 5:22 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Richmond Twp, PA | FEW TREES DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
536
WWUS81 KPHI 162008
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
408 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
PAZ060-162115-
BERKS-
408 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BERKS COUNTY...
AT 408 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER MOUNT JOY...MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
READING...WYOMISSING...BIRDSBORO...KUTZTOWN...HAMBURG...FLEETWOOD...
SINKING SPRING...LAURELDALE...WOMELSDORF...WERNERSVILLE...
NEWMANSTOWN...TOPTON...LEESPORT...SHOEMAKERSVILLE...BALLY...
BERNVILLE...BECHTELSVILLE...LYONS...STRAUSSTOWN AND LENHARTSVILLE.
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 4049 7643 4052 7634 4052 7625 4058 7605
4057 7602 4064 7598 4067 7589 4044 7554
4027 7568 4014 7587 4036 7621 4036 7622
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 248DEG 37KT 4013 7651
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Northampton | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 53 min |
| Aug 15, 10:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 38 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.