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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 14, 2011Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 14, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 63 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: Oct 14, 2011, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2011, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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.

313 
WWUS81 KPHI 141912
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
312 PM EDT FRI OCT 14 2011

NJZ001-007-142015-
SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
312 PM EDT FRI OCT 14 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX AND WARREN COUNTIES...

AT 307 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF
MONTAGUE TO 17 MILES EAST OF EASTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR HAINESVILLE...NEWTON AROUND 330 PM...HIGH
POINT...OGDENSBURG AROUND 345 PM...VERNON VALLEY AND SUSSEX AROUND
400 PM.

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

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4122 7441 4117 7439 4090 7474 4090 7478
      4087 7481 4086 7480 4070 7502 4104 7503
      4107 7497 4110 7499 4115 7491 4127 7484
      4134 7475 4135 7468

$$

FORECASTER: AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 14, 12:15 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more	13 hr
Oct 14, 3:26 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	19 hr
Oct 14, 4:01 AM EDT	Gale Watch	PHI		12 hr
Oct 14, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	54 min
Oct 14, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset	67 min
Oct 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Gale Watch	PHI		12 hr
Oct 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Gale Warning	PHI		27 hr
Oct 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris	61 min
Oct 14, 10:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	60 min
Oct 14, 11:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh	52 min
Oct 14, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	80 min
Oct 14, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	54 min
Oct 14, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe, Northampton	53 min
Oct 14, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	62 min
Oct 14, 11:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	54 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.