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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 15, 2012Mercer County, New Jersey

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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: AMC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 3:44 PM EDTExcessive Heat WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris and 1 more4 days
Jul 15, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean61 min
Jul 15, 6:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI65 min
Jul 15, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI24 min
Jul 15, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren56 min
Jul 15, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Somerset61 min
Jul 15, 12:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHILehigh39 min
Jul 15, 1:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton59 min
Jul 15, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks56 min
Jul 15, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon64 min
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon55 min
Jul 15, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks61 min
Jul 15, 5:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon, Monroe53 min
Jul 15, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe62 min
Jul 15, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon62 min
Jul 15, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh, Northampton65 min
Jul 15, 7:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks, Bucks62 min
Jul 15, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Sussex58 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.