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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 22, 2011Sussex County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2011, 4:09 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2011, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 4:50 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Blairstown, NJ	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF WARREN COUNTY... INCLUDING IN BLAIRSTOWN... HACKETTSTOWN... AND INDEPENDENCE TWP
Jun 22, 5:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Blairstown, NJ	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF WARREN COUNTY... INCLUDING IN BLAIRSTOWN... HACKETTSTOWN... AND INDEPENDENCE TWP

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.

732 
WWUS81 KPHI 222009
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
409 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

NJZ001-007-PAZ055-062-222115-
MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
409 PM EDT WED JUN 22 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MONROE...NORTHAMPTON...SUSSEX
AND WARREN COUNTIES...

AT 407 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR DELAWARE WATER GAP...
DELAWARE WATER GAP...COLUMBIA...PORTLAND AROUND 415 PM...ECHO LAKE
AROUND 420 PM...ECHO LAKE...BLAIRSTOWN AROUND 425 PM...FLATBROOKVILLE
AROUND 430 PM...FIVE POINTS AND CRANDON LAKES AROUND 440 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT 
SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS 
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 4134 7466 4100 7460 4085 7539 4106 7550
      4119 7515 4116 7515 4115 7509 4110 7505
      4109 7501 4111 7495 4115 7491 4127 7484
      4131 7480 4135 7468

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

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, 8:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Sussex	36 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, 4:17 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

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2011 Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2011 Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.