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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2012, 7:44 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 61 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, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2012, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
714
WWUS81 KPHI 152344
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
744 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012
NJZ007-009-010-PAZ061-062-069-160045-
BUCKS PA-HUNTERDON NJ-LEHIGH PA-NORTHAMPTON PA-SOMERSET NJ-WARREN NJ-
744 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BUCKS...HUNTERDON...LEHIGH...
NORTHAMPTON...SOMERSET AND WARREN COUNTIES...
AT 740 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES EAST OF
EASTON TO 3 MILES SOUTH OF ALLENTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR SPRINGTOWN...PLEASANT VALLEY...HAMPTON...
RIEGELSVILLE AROUND 750 PM...CALIFON AROUND 755 PM...REVERE...
OTTSVILLE...BEDMINSTER...FERNDALE AROUND 800 PM AND PIPERSVILLE
AROUND 805 PM.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 4060 7446 4057 7452 4054 7450 4045 7457
4038 7473 4042 7475 4042 7480 4039 7480
4037 7487 4034 7486 4034 7494 4048 7549
4080 7517 4076 7485 4072 7473 4074 7465
4072 7453 4065 7452 4067 7446 4066 7441
$$
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, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 59 min |
| 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, 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
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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.