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 10, 2012, 4:25 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 10, 2012, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
370
WWUS81 KPHI 102025
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
425 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012
NJZ001-008-102115-
MORRIS NJ-SUSSEX NJ-
425 PM EDT SUN JUN 10 2012
...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MORRIS AND SUSSEX
COUNTIES...
AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE SUSSEX AND ORANGE COUNTY
BORDER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
AND EAST OF HAINESVILLE AROUND 430 PM...SUSSEX AND BRANCHVILLE
AROUND 445 PM...AND FRANKLIN AND HAMBURG AROUND 500 PM BEFORE
DROPPING INTO MORRIS COUNTY AFTER 500 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...AND
MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...PLEASE MOVE INDOORS.
LAT...LON 4121 7437 4119 7437 4109 7449 4105 7449
4106 7445 4102 7438 4101 7430 4098 7427
4096 7427 4087 7469 4130 7483 4135 7476
4136 7471
$$
MPDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 44 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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.