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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 22, 2011Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2011, 8:39 AM EDT for Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 22, 2011, 8:39 AM EDT (12:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2011, 9:15 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

719 
WWUS81 KPHI 221239
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
839 AM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

NJZ001-008-221315-
MORRIS NJ-SUSSEX NJ-
839 AM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS 
ACROSS MORRIS AND EASTERN SUSSEX COUNTIES OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THEY 
WILL AFFECT EASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY AND NORTHEAST MORRIS COUNTY 
THROUGH 930 AM. 

VERY HEAVY RAINS WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER 
TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4119 7437 4104 7449 4105 7444 4097 7427
      4089 7427 4090 7429 4088 7434 4086 7432
      4073 7437 4064 7452 4070 7451 4074 7456
      4071 7474 4073 7483 4078 7489 4091 7477
      4109 7499 4115 7491 4127 7484 4135 7470

$$

FORECASTER:PO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 3:31 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jun 22, 9:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Sussex	44 min
Jun 22, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	53 min
Jun 22, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	61 min
Jun 22, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	61 min
Jun 22, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		84 min
Jun 22, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	66 min
Jun 22, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	58 min
Jun 22, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	53 min
Jun 22, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset	66 min
Jun 22, 4:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Sussex, Warren	37 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren	34 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	29 min
Jun 22, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Somerset	48 min
Jun 21, 9:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monroe	116 min
Jun 22, 2:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Chester, Delaware	60 min
Jun 22, 2:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware	63 min
Jun 22, 3:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Delaware	115 min
Jun 22, 4:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	92 min
Jun 22, 6:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	58 min
Jun 22, 8:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	60 min
Jun 22, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	57 min
Jun 22, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia	67 min
Jun 21, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	63 min
Jun 22, 12:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	65 min
Jun 22, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	65 min
Jun 22, 1:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	55 min
Jun 22, 1:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	61 min
Jun 22, 1:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	105 min
Jun 22, 2:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	58 min
Jun 22, 1:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	62 min
Jun 22, 2:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	119 min
Jun 22, 12:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	57 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.