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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 3, 2011Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; Chester County, Montgomery County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2011, 9:43 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; Chester County, Montgomery County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 47 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
May 3, 2011, 9:43 PM EDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2011, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Chester County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2011-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2011-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 226 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

262 
WWUS81 KPHI 040143
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
943 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 2011

NJZ001-007>009-PAZ055-060>062-067>069-040230-
BERKS PA-BUCKS PA-CHESTER PA-HUNTERDON NJ-LEHIGH PA-MONROE PA-
MONTGOMERY PA-MORRIS NJ-NORTHAMPTON PA-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
943 PM EDT TUE MAY 3 2011

...SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL 
AFFECT SUSSEX...WARREN...MORRIS...HUNTERDON...CHESTER...MONTGOMERY...
BERKS...LEHIGH...NORTHAMPTON...BUCKS AND MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 939 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A 
LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES WEST OF MONTAGUE TO 6 MILES NORTHEAST 
OF ALLENTOWN TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 
MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR ECHO 
LAKE...TATAMY...STOWE...STOCKERTOWN AROUND 950 
PM...GLENMOORE...GERYVILLE...FORKS...CEDARVILLE AROUND 955 
PM...PUGHTOWN AND HARMONY AROUND 1000 PM.

NORTHWEST WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND 
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS.

THERE MAY BE ISOLATED LIGHTNING STRIKES.  

LAT...LON 4125 7447 4123 7445 4082 7474 4001 7547
      3988 7601 4011 7595 4014 7590 4016 7592
      4064 7549 4116 7515 4115 7509 4109 7503
      4111 7495 4127 7484 4135 7471

$$

FORECASTER:  DRAG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 8:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren58 min
May 4, 7:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Cape May56 min
May 4, 7:58 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Ocean62 min
May 4, 8:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Cape May59 min
May 4, 8:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May58 min
May 4, 9:09 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI66 min
May 4, 10:13 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI62 min
May 4, 11:06 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI54 min
May 4, 11:27 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryPHI4 hr
May 4, 3:29 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryPHI27 hr
May 3, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon39 min
May 3, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Monroe30 min
May 4, 7:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex57 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2011Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011

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.