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 Jul 23, 2012, 12:19 PM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2012, 12:19 PM EDT (16:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2012, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:37 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Hainesville, NJ |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
565
WWUS81 KPHI 231619
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1219 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2012
NJZ001-231715-
SUSSEX NJ-
1219 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 1214 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTAGUE...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HAINESVILLE...MONTAGUE AROUND 1230
PM...HIGH POINT AROUND 1245 PM...SUSSEX...HAMBURG AROUND 100 PM...
VERNON VALLEY AND HIGHLAND LAKE AROUND 115 PM.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS WELL AS SMALL
HAIL.
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 4121 7437 4119 7437 4109 7449 4116 7490
4121 7487 4124 7487 4129 7484 4135 7476
4136 7471 4136 7468
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 11:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 94 min |
| Jul 23, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 73 min |
| Jul 23, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 1:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 78 min |
| Jul 23, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 66 min |
| Jul 23, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Warren | 76 min |
| Jul 23, 2:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 78 min |
| Jul 23, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset | 94 min |
| Jul 23, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Hunterdon, Mercer | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 85 min |
| Jul 23, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 69 min |
| Jul 23, 7:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 59 min |
| Jul 23, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 59 min |
| Jul 23, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery | 51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.