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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 21, 2021Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2021, 5:59 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 31 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 21, 2021, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2021, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Berks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 638 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1275 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

577 
WWUS81 KPHI 212159
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
559 PM EDT Wed Jul 21 2021

PAZ060-101-212230-
Western Chester-Berks-
559 PM EDT Wed Jul 21 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN BERKS AND NORTH
CENTRAL CHESTER COUNTIES...

At 559 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Wyomissing, or
near Reading, moving southeast at 25 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Reading, Wyomissing, Birdsboro, Sinking Spring, Elverson, New Morgan,
Spring Ridge, Shillington, West Reading, Mount Penn, Mohnton,
Kenhorst, St. Lawrence, Wyomissing Hills, West Lawn, Lorane,
Reiffton, Whitfield, West Wyomissing and Flying Hills.

This includes the following highways...
 Pennsylvania Turnpike between mile markers 296 and 302.
 Interstate 176 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 1 and 11.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

LAT...LON 4038 7593 4022 7567 4011 7585 4013 7588
      4014 7588 4030 7613
TIME...MOT...LOC 2159Z 319DEG 22KT 4028 7598 

$$

Gorse

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 11:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	36 min
Jul 21, 12:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	34 min
Jul 21, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		89 min
Jul 21, 12:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Ocean	39 min
Jul 21, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	67 min
Jul 21, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic	47 min
Jul 21, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	49 min
Jul 21, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		95 min
Jul 21, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	47 min
Jul 21, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		55 min
Jul 21, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	26 min
Jul 21, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	56 min
Jul 21, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	44 min
Jul 21, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	33 min
Jul 21, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	47 min
Jul 21, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Jul 21, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	42 min
Jul 21, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	33 min
Jul 21, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		56 min
Jul 21, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		58 min
Jul 21, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		55 min
Jul 21, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		23 min
Jul 21, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Jul 21, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		46 min
Jul 21, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	29 min
Jul 21, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 min
Jul 21, 1:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	37 min
Jul 21, 1:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Northampton	34 min
Jul 21, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	48 min
Jul 21, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	42 min
Jul 21, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	19 min
Jul 21, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Montgomery	49 min
Jul 21, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia	42 min
Jul 21, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	38 min
Jul 21, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	25 min
Jul 21, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	26 min
Jul 21, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's	44 min
Jul 21, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	30 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.