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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 26, 2011Sussex County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2011, 6:28 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey; Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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 26, 2011, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2011, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 12:00Z on 2011-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 76 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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.

467 
WWUS81 KPHI 262228
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
628 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2011

NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-062-262330-
CARBON PA-MONROE PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
628 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CARBON...MONROE...NORTHAMPTON...
SUSSEX AND WARREN COUNTIES...

AT 626 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES WEST OF
MONTAGUE TO 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR TOBYHANNA...SKYTOP...LAKE
HARMONY...CHRISTMANS AROUND 635 PM...POCONO RACEWAY...PENN FOREST
RESERVOIR...MECKESVILLE...JONAS AROUND 640 PM...HIGH POINT AND LONG
POND AROUND 645 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. DO NOT SEEK 
SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A 
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 4120 7438 4082 7554 4105 7578 4111 7576
      4114 7570 4113 7564 4121 7557 4125 7550
      4126 7514 4116 7516 4115 7509 4109 7501
      4115 7491 4131 7480 4135 7471

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex, Warren35 min
Jul 26, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris52 min
Jul 26, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex54 min
Jul 26, 7:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris52 min
Jul 26, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris25 min
Jul 26, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe61 min
Jul 26, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe59 min
Jul 25, 10:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICecil, Kent3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2011Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 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.