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 29, 2012, 4:41 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Morris County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 64 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 29, 2012, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 292041
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
441 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2012
NJZ001-007>010-012-292145-
HUNTERDON NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-MORRIS NJ-SOMERSET NJ-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
441 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2012
...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT
HUNTERDON...MIDDLESEX...MORRIS...SOMERSET...SUSSEX AND WARREN
COUNTIES...
AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 4 MILES NORTH OF MORRISTOWN...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
NEAR MORRIS PLAINS...HANOVER TOWNSHIP AROUND 445 PM...MORRISTOWN...
FLORHAM PARK AROUND 500 PM...MADISON...CHATHAM AROUND 515 PM...
MILLINGTON...BASKING RIDGE AROUND 530 PM...WATCHUNG AND NORTH
PLAINFIELD AROUND 545 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THE SHOWERS AND STORMS. AS MUCH AS AN
INCH OF RAIN COULD FALL IN LESS THAN 45 MINUTES...WHICH COULD RESULT
IN LOCALIZED FLOODING.
WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS.
LAT...LON 4054 7424 4052 7424 4051 7500 4098 7498
4099 7429 4090 7427 4090 7433 4086 7432
4082 7432 4080 7436 4074 7436 4067 7445
4067 7440 4061 7442 4060 7421 4056 7420
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 55 min |
| Jul 28, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 64 min | |
| Jul 28, 8:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Mercer | 101 min |
| Jul 28, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 67 min |
| Jul 28, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Jul 28, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 61 min | |
| Jul 28, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 23 min |
| Jul 28, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 9:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Jul 28, 9:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 118 min |
| Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 53 min |
| Jul 28, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Jul 28, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 10:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 59 min | |
| Jul 28, 10:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 66 min |
| Jul 29, 12:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 23 min | |
| Jul 29, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 55 min |
| Jul 29, 1:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 61 min |
| Jul 29, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 55 min |
| Jul 29, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 9:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks, Philadelphia | 64 min |
| Jul 29, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 57 min |
| Jul 29, 3:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Chester | 74 min |
| Jul 29, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton | 58 min |
| Jul 29, 6:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon | 86 min |
| Jul 28, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 54 min |
| Jul 28, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 10:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 69 min |
| Jul 29, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 52 min |
| Jul 29, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 67 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.