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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 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 15, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
124
WWUS81 KPHI 152001
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
401 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012
NJZ015-019-PAZ069-152100-
BUCKS PA-MERCER NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
401 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BUCKS...BURLINGTON AND MERCER
COUNTIES...
AT 359 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LANGHORNE...LANGHORN...LANGHORNE MANOR
AROUND 410 PM...YARDLEY...WOODSIDE...WOODBOURNE...FAIRLESS HILLS
AROUND 415 PM...EWING...FAIRLESS HILLS AND PENNINGTON AROUND 420 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 4019 7456 4018 7462 4012 7458 4004 7461
4023 7508 4036 7503 4036 7494 4034 7494
4035 7485 4034 7463 4029 7456 4030 7453
4028 7451
$$
FORECASTER: AMCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 3:44 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris and 1 more | 4 days |
| Jul 15, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Jul 15, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 24 min | |
| Jul 15, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 56 min |
| Jul 15, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 59 min |
| Jul 15, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 56 min |
| Jul 15, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 64 min |
| Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 61 min |
| Jul 15, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 65 min |
| Jul 15, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Bucks | 62 min |
| Jul 15, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 58 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.