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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT for Morris County, Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 90 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
- Jul 7, 2012, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Morris County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 071630
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1230 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2012
NJZ001-007-008-PAZ055-071800-
MONROE PA-MORRIS NJ-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
1230 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MONROE...MORRIS...SUSSEX AND
WARREN COUNTIES...
AT 1226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 38 MILES NORTH OF
MONTAGUE TO 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SCRANTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR SKYTOP...CANADENSIS AROUND 100
PM...ECHO LAKE...MONTAGUE AROUND 115 PM...FIVE POINTS...VERNON VALLEY
AROUND 130 PM...GREEN POND...WHITE MEADOW LAKE AROUND 145 PM AND
LINCOLN PARK AROUND 200 PM.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. THESE
STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. PLEASE LOOK FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 4121 7437 4109 7449 4105 7449 4106 7445
4102 7438 4101 7430 4090 7427 4090 7433
4086 7432 4081 7434 4075 7451 4123 7546
4126 7513 4115 7514 4115 7508 4109 7502
4116 7491 4132 7480 4136 7469
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Warren | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset, Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 96 min | |
| Jul 7, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton | 86 min |
| Jul 7, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | 48 min |
Nearby
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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.