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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2021, 8:06 PM EDT for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 24 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 27, 2021, 8:06 PM EDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2021, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted.
585
WWUS81 KPHI 280006
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
806 PM EDT Tue Jul 27 2021
PAZ054-055-280030-
Monroe-Carbon-
806 PM EDT Tue Jul 27 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL CARBON AND
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTIES...
At 806 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Christmans, or
10 miles northeast of Lehighton, moving east at 35 mph.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph are possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
East Stroudsburg, Wind Gap, Stormville, Reeders, Brodheadsville,
Saylorsburg, Gilbert, McMichael, Penn Forest Reservoir,
Albrightsville, Kresgeville, Christmans, Sun Valley, Jonas,
Meckesville, Rossland, Stroudsburg, Arlington Heights, Effort and
Merwinsburg.
This includes the following highways...
Northeast Extension between mile markers 81 and 89.
Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 305 and 309.
LAT...LON 4102 7519 4087 7528 4086 7529 4090 7568
4102 7568
TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 274DEG 30KT 4096 7560
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 10:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 11:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 47 min |
| Jul 28, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 22 min |
| Jul 27, 10:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 23 min |
| Jul 27, 10:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 33 min |
| Jul 28, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 40 min |
| Jul 28, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 35 min |
Nearby
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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.