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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 7, 2011Mercer County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2011, 7:49 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 86 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 7, 2011, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2011, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
86 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Mercer County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 549 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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.

139 
WWUS81 KPHI 072349
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
749 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2011

NJZ009-010-015-PAZ069-080115-
BUCKS PA-HUNTERDON NJ-MERCER NJ-SOMERSET NJ-
749 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BUCKS...HUNTERDON...MERCER AND
SOMERSET COUNTIES...

AT 746 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EASTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SERGEANTSVILLE...SAND BROOK
AROUND 800 PM...SAND BROOK...LAMBERTVILLE AROUND 815 PM...HOPEWELL...
PENNINGTON AROUND 900 PM...PRINCETON AND PRINCETON NORTH AROUND 915
PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER
TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM
APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 4044 7461 4020 7471 4045 7512 4053 7497

$$
 NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 1:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington93 min
Jul 7, 3:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic64 min
Jul 7, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Ocean45 min
Jul 7, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI89 min
Jul 7, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren64 min
Jul 7, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMercer, Middlesex90 min
Jul 7, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington89 min
Jul 7, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Ocean34 min
Jul 7, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean88 min
Jul 7, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren46 min
Jul 7, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth, Ocean57 min
Jul 7, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden, Gloucester63 min
Jul 7, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Monmouth, Ocean61 min
Jul 7, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester40 min
Jul 7, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset74 min
Jul 7, 6:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden57 min
Jul 7, 7:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem88 min
Jul 7, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIPhiladelphia93 min
Jul 7, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHILehigh55 min
Jul 7, 3:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe53 min
Jul 7, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester55 min
Jul 7, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil, Kent89 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.