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 Oct 19, 2011, 11:48 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 12 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 19, 2011, 11:48 PM EDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2011, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
376
WWUS81 KPHI 200348
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1148 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011
NJZ001-200400-
SUSSEX NJ-
1148 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011
...SHOWERS WITH POSSIBLE GUSTS TO 35 MPH WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 1141 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF NEWTON TO 18 MILES EAST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTH AT
NEARLY 50 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR HIGH POINT AROUND 1155 PM.
BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE SHOWERS...AND WILL CAUSE
WATER TO POND ON ROADS. WINDS MAY GUST 30 TO 35 MPH.
LAT...LON 4120 7437 4118 7437 4109 7449 4107 7493
4111 7495 4120 7488 4122 7488 4127 7484
4132 7479 4135 7471 4135 7468
$$
FORECASTER: DRAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 9:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 49 min |
| Oct 19, 10:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset | 64 min |
| Oct 20, 12:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 66 min |
| Oct 20, 2:41 AM EDT | Gale Warning | PHI | 13 hr | |
| Oct 20, 4:22 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 4 hr |
| Oct 20, 2:11 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 3 hr |
| Oct 20, 8:25 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 9 hr |
| Oct 20, 5:09 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 11:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 90 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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.