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, 5:53 PM EDT for Middlesex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Middlesex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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.
501
WWUS81 KPHI 292153
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
553 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2012
NJZ012-013-292245-
MIDDLESEX NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
553 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT MIDDLESEX
AND MONMOUTH COUNTIES...
AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PERTH AMBOY...MOVING SOUTH
AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ISELIN...SOUTH PLAINFIELD
AROUND 600 PM...METUCHEN...FORDS AROUND 615 PM...EDISON...PERTH AMBOY
AROUND 630 PM...SAYREVILLE AND SOUTH AMBOY AROUND 645 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM. AS MUCH AS AN INCH OF
RAIN WILL FALL IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES...WHICH COULD RESULT IN
LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING.
IN ADDITION...A WIND GUST TO 35 MPH IS POSSIBLE.
LAT...LON 4035 7413 4033 7448 4049 7448 4049 7446
4051 7448 4060 7447 4062 7432 4060 7430
4060 7421 4056 7420 4054 7424 4049 7426
4045 7420 4047 7418 4046 7416
$$
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, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 64 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 |
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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.