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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 6, 2019Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2019, 12:13 PM EDT for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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 6, 2019, 12:13 PM EDT (16:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2019, 1:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 6, 12:18 PM EDTHAIL 0.25Narberth, PA
Aug 6, 12:36 PM EDTTSTM WND DMG1 Ssw Flourtown, PADOWNED WIRES NEAR MONTGOMERY AVENUE AND BETHLEHEM PIKE. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

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, 4.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2019-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 291 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2019-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

121 
WWUS81 KPHI 061613
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
1213 PM EDT Tue Aug 6 2019

PAZ070-071-104-061700-
Eastern Montgomery-Delaware-Philadelphia-
1213 PM EDT Tue Aug 6 2019

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY...
WESTERN PHILADELPHIA AND NORTHEASTERN DELAWARE COUNTIES...

At 1212 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Narberth, or 7
miles west of Philadelphia. The storm is nearly stationary.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Philadelphia, Yeadon, Conshohocken, Narberth, East Lansdowne, Morris
Park, Germantown, Center City, Bryn Mawr, Kensington, Roxborough,
Chestnut Hill, Plymouth Meeting, Drexel Hill, Radnor Township, Darby,
Lansdowne, Sharon Hill, Colwyn and West Conshohocken.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 3990 7525 4006 7537 4012 7523 3999 7507
TIME...MOT...LOC 1612Z 255DEG 1KT 4004 7526 

$$

Staarmann

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 9:04 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic74 min
Aug 6, 12:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland40 min
Aug 6, 12:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICumberland108 min
Aug 6, 1:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIGloucester36 min
Aug 6, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonmouth32 min
Aug 6, 1:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean31 min
Aug 6, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIGloucester30 min
Aug 6, 1:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic41 min
Aug 6, 1:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonmouth37 min
Aug 6, 1:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean40 min
Aug 6, 2:14 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Cape May, Cumberland3 hr
Aug 6, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic41 min
Aug 6, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean27 min
Aug 6, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington23 min
Aug 6, 3:30 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryPHI36 hr
Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex, Somerset50 min
Aug 6, 7:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren35 min
Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren43 min
Aug 6, 11:46 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIPhiladelphia29 min
Aug 6, 12:21 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMontgomery, Philadelphia102 min
Aug 6, 12:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMontgomery, Philadelphia39 min
Aug 6, 1:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks27 min
Aug 6, 2:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe25 min
Aug 6, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe25 min
Aug 6, 4:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon35 min
Aug 6, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe39 min
Aug 6, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe28 min
Aug 6, 6:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon37 min
Aug 6, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe104 min
Aug 6, 1:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex36 min
Aug 6, 2:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex3 hr
Aug 6, 3:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex26 min

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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.