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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 6, 2021Carbon County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2021, 5:08 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 6, 2021, 5:08 PM EDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2021, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Carbon County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

913 
WWUS81 KPHI 062108
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
508 PM EDT Tue Jul 6 2021

PAZ054-062145-
Carbon-
508 PM EDT Tue Jul 6 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY...

At 508 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Weatherly, or 8
miles east of Hazleton, moving east at 30 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Jim Thorpe, Weatherly, Beltzville State Park and Weissport East. 

This includes Northeast Extension between mile markers 77 and 82.
 
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

LAT...LON 4082 7547 4081 7548 4088 7589 4095 7590
      4098 7582 4099 7578
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 276DEG 27KT 4094 7581 

$$

Staarmann

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 3:53 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		22 hr
Jul 6, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	49 min
Jul 6, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	60 min
Jul 6, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	59 min
Jul 6, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Somerset, Warren	65 min
Jul 6, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	31 min
Jul 6, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	58 min
Jul 6, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		117 min
Jul 6, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	64 min
Jul 6, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and 1 more	59 min
Jul 6, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset	61 min
Jul 6, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Montgomery	52 min
Jul 6, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	76 min
Jul 6, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	41 min
Jul 6, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.