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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2017, 7:37 PM EDT for Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 38 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 3, 2017, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2017, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Lehigh County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
697 WWUS81 KPHI 032337 SPSPHI Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 737 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2017 PAZ060-061-103-040015- Lehigh-Western Montgomery-Berks- 737 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2017 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN BERKS... NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY AND SOUTHERN LEHIGH COUNTIES... At 736 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Bechtelsville, or 11 miles east of Reading, moving northeast at 15 mph. Winds up to 50 mph and dime size hail are possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Allentown, Pottstown, Emmaus, Kutztown, Fleetwood, Topton, Bally, Bechtelsville, Lyons, Zionsville, Ancient Oaks, Gilbertsville, Claussville, Stowe, Boyertown, Macungie, Alburtis and Halfway House. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. LAT...LON 4026 7566 4034 7587 4068 7573 4056 7540 TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 205DEG 15KT 4037 7573 $$ CMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| Aug 3, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 85 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 88 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 5:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 6:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks, Philadelphia | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 21 min |
| Aug 3, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 3:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 5:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 7:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
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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.