Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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.
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 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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: GORSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 26, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 54 min |
| Jul 26, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 25 min |
| Jul 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 61 min |
| Jul 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jul 25, 10:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cecil, Kent | 3 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.