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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Sep 13, 2010, 2:18 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; Carbon County, Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 57 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
- Sep 13, 2010, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2010, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Sep 13, 1:54 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 1:54 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 13, 1:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 102 PM EDT MON SEP 13 2010 NJZ001-007>010-012>015-PAZ054-055-062-131815- SUSSEX-WARREN-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-MIDDLESEX- WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH-MERCER-CARBON-MONROE- NORTHAMPTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWTON...WASHINGTON...MORRISTOWN... FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...NEW BRUNSWICK...FREEHOLD...SANDY HOOK... TRENTON...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG...BETHLEHEM...EASTON 102 PM EDT MON SEP 13 2010 SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RACE SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY DURING MID OR LATE AFTERNOON. ONE OR TWO STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE PRIMARY THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES OF CARBON...MONROE AND NORTHAMPTON IS BETWEEN 2 PM AND 5 PM. THE THREAT FOR A STRONG STORM IN NORTHERN NEW JERSEY IS BETWEEN 3 PM AND 6 PM. DAMAGING LIGHTNING STRIKES AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE. PLEASE MONITOR LATER STATEMENTS ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON REGARDING THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING NEAR BINGHAMTON NEW YORK. DRAG
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 2:18 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
218 PM EDT MON SEP 13 2010
NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-062-131915-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
218 PM EDT MON SEP 13 2010
...A FEW SHOWERS OR EVEN STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON...
AT 2:10 PM EDT...A FEW SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE SOUTHERN
POCONOS. SOME OF THESE SHOWERS COULD DEVELOP INTO STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...ANY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE
SCATTERED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 8:00 PM
THIS EVENING. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS...AND POSSIBLY NEAR OR OVER 60 MILES AN HOUR WITH THE
STRONGEST STORMS. ALSO...HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE FROM ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARD
THE EAST...OR EAST-SOUTHEAST...AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR.
LAT...LON 4120 7448 4067 7513 4070 7542 4095 7590
4101 7575 4105 7578 4110 7577 4114 7570
4113 7564 4123 7554 4126 7514 4116 7516
4115 7509 4109 7503 4115 7491 4127 7484
4132 7479 4133 7470The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Sep 13, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 55 min |
| Sep 13, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 61 min |
| Sep 13, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 67 min |
| Sep 13, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 57 min |
| Sep 13, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 50 min |
| Sep 13, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset | 55 min |
| Sep 13, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 50 min |
| Sep 13, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 60 min |
| Sep 13, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 57 min | |
| Sep 13, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 48 min |
| Sep 13, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean | 22 min |
| Sep 13, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 60 min |
| Sep 13, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 52 min |
| Sep 13, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 55 min |
| Sep 13, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Northampton | 62 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2010Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2010Every 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.