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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 23, 2012Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2012, 2:24 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 66 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 23, 2012, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 2012-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 253 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 2012-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

134 
WWUS81 KPHI 231824
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
224 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2012

NJZ007-231930-
WARREN NJ-
224 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WARREN COUNTY...

AT 222 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF NEWTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ALLAMUCHY AND ALLAMUCHY-PANTHER VALLEY
AROUND 230 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4092 7477 4091 7477 4087 7482 4103 7499
      4108 7496

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 11:26 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex94 min
Jul 23, 12:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex56 min
Jul 23, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex73 min
Jul 23, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex60 min
Jul 23, 1:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISussex3 hr
Jul 23, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex78 min
Jul 23, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Warren76 min
Jul 23, 2:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren3 hr
Jul 23, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset78 min
Jul 23, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex, Monmouth, Somerset94 min
Jul 23, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Hunterdon, Mercer64 min
Jul 23, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris, Sussex85 min
Jul 23, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren69 min
Jul 23, 7:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISussex, Warren2 hr
Jul 23, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren59 min
Jul 23, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks59 min
Jul 23, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery51 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.