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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 9, 2010Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2010, 11:11 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 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, 2010, 11:11 PM EDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2010, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 9, 11:01 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 11:01 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:44 PM EDT, 7 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:11 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1111 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 2010

NJZ001-007>009-100415-
HUNTERDON NJ-MORRIS NJ-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
1111 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 2010

...SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT
HUNTERDON... MORRIS...SUSSEX AND WARREN COUNTIES...

AT 1105 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR GREAT MEADOWS...GREAT MEADOWS-VIENNA
AROUND 1115 PM...ALLAMUCHY...ALLAMUCHY-PANTHER VALLEY AROUND 1130
PM...ANDOVER...HOPATCONG AROUND 1145 PM...NEWTON...FLATBROOKVILLE
AROUND MIDNIGHT...FIVE POINTS AND CRANDON LAKES AROUND 1215 AM.

AS MUCH AS AN INCH AND ONE-HALF OF RAIN COULD FALL WITH THE SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN LESS THAN 45 MINUTES. THIS MUCH RAIN WILL CAUSE
WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.

LAT...LON 4116 7441 4075 7481 4083 7506 4111 7497
      4115 7491 4125 7486

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 5:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	85 min
Jul 10, 6:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex, Warren	54 min
Jul 10, 7:06 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren	5 hr
Jul 10, 8:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex	4 hr
Jul 10, 9:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Mercer	4 hr
Jul 10, 11:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more	4 hr
Jul 10, 7:32 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cape May, Cumberland	2 hr
Jul 10, 4:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	60 min
Jul 10, 4:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	65 min
Jul 10, 5:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	82 min
Jul 10, 5:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Jul 10, 6:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	3 hr
Jul 10, 7:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Delaware	6 hr
Jul 10, 11:56 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	2 hr
Jul 10, 4:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil, Kent	60 min
Jul 10, 5:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil, Kent	91 min
Jul 10, 9:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	6 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2010 Every special weather statement in 2010

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.