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 Jun 3, 2012, 4:53 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2012, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:55 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Allentown, PA | |
| Jun 3, 5:07 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | Springtown, PA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
686 WWUS81 KPHI 032053 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 453 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012 NJZ007-009-010-012-015-PAZ061-062-069-032145- BUCKS PA-HUNTERDON NJ-LEHIGH PA-MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-NORTHAMPTON PA- SOMERSET NJ-WARREN NJ- 453 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BUCKS...HUNTERDON...LEHIGH... MERCER...MIDDLESEX...NORTHAMPTON...SOMERSET AND WARREN COUNTIES... AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALLENTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR RIEGELSVILLE...HELLERTOWN AROUND 500 PM...FRENCHTOWN...MILFORD AROUND 515 PM...SAND BROOK... FLEMINGTON AROUND 530 PM...SKILLMAN AND CLOVERHILL AROUND 545 PM. 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 TO 40 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4048 7442 4025 7458 4055 7554 4079 7535 $$ NIERENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:57 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris and 4 more | 118 min |
| Jun 3, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 5 more | 118 min |
| Jun 3, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 91 min | |
| Jun 3, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Ocean and 1 more | 85 min |
| Jun 3, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery | 85 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.