Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2012, 5:26 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 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
- May 26, 2012, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614 WWUS81 KPHI 262126 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 526 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 NJZ007-009-PAZ061-062-069-262215- BUCKS PA-HUNTERDON NJ-LEHIGH PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-WARREN NJ- 526 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF BUCKS...HUNTERDON...LEHIGH...NORTHAMPTON AND WARREN COUNTIES... AT 522 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM FROM NORTHAMPTON COUNTY INTO LEHIGH COUNTY, MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS, MOVE INDOORS. LAT...LON 4061 7472 4031 7513 4056 7552 4083 7511 $$ FORECASTER: GORSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 51 min |
| May 26, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 63 min |
| May 26, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 58 min |
| May 26, 2:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 5 hr |
| May 26, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 62 min |
| May 26, 2:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 5 hr |
| May 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 48 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 23 hr |
| May 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Warren | 114 min |
| May 26, 6:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon | 111 min |
| May 26, 7:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 60 min |
| May 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex | 45 min |
| May 26, 2:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 44 min |
| May 26, 3:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon | 2 hr |
| May 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 4 hr |
| May 26, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 51 min |
| May 26, 3:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 39 min |
| May 26, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Carbon | 4 hr |
| May 26, 4:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe, Northampton | 3 hr |
| May 26, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 38 min |
| May 26, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Northampton | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe | 114 min |
| May 26, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 43 min |
| May 26, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Chester | 59 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2012Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.