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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 9, 2021Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2021, 7:31 PM EDT for Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 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 9, 2021, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

122 
WWUS81 KPHI 092331
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
731 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021

NJZ007-PAZ055-062-100000-
Warren-Monroe-Northampton-
731 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WARREN...SOUTH
CENTRAL MONROE AND NORTHEASTERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...

At 731 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Saylorsburg, or
14 miles north of Easton, moving east at 15 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
East Stroudsburg, Bangor, Pen Argyl, Wind Gap, Belvidere, Harmony,
Belfast, East Bangor, Stormville, Saylorsburg, Delaware Water Gap,
Roxburg, Columbia, Brodheadsville, Stroudsburg, Roseto, Portland and
Arlington Heights.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 309 and 312, and
near mile marker 314.
 Interstate 80 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 6.

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

LAT...LON 4079 7540 4098 7538 4100 7505 4073 7506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 272DEG 11KT 4089 7530 

$$

NC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 10:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cape May, Cumberland	7 hr
Jul 8, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		88 min
Jul 8, 11:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	5 hr
Jul 9, 12:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 min
Jul 9, 12:08 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester	6 hr
Jul 9, 12:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		95 min
Jul 9, 1:34 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		86 min
Jul 9, 1:49 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		26 min
Jul 9, 2:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	8 hr
Jul 9, 2:50 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	25 min
Jul 9, 2:53 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		68 min
Jul 9, 3:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	18 min
Jul 9, 3:51 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		84 min
Jul 9, 4:08 AM EDT	Gale Warning	PHI		3 hr
Jul 9, 4:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	34 min
Jul 9, 4:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex	5 hr
Jul 9, 4:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Morris, Somerset	5 hr
Jul 9, 4:58 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		39 min
Jul 9, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex, Warren	2 hr
Jul 9, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Salem	41 min
Jul 9, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Jul 9, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	2 hr
Jul 9, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	63 min
Jul 9, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	23 min
Jul 9, 7:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren	2 hr
Jul 9, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	62 min
Jul 9, 7:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	108 min
Jul 9, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	43 min
Jul 9, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	35 min
Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	3 hr
Jul 8, 10:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, Sussex	5 hr
Jul 8, 11:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex	23 min
Jul 8, 11:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex	12 min
Jul 9, 12:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex	26 min
Jul 9, 12:11 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex	35 min
Jul 9, 12:28 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex	17 min
Jul 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	66 min
Jul 9, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Queen Anne's, Talbot	53 min
Jul 9, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	49 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.