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 Aug 1, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT for Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 1, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
312
WWUS81 KPHI 011745
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
145 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
NJZ008-010-012-011845-
MIDDLESEX NJ-MORRIS NJ-SOMERSET NJ-
145 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MIDDLESEX...MORRIS
AND SOMERSET COUNTIES...
AT 140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOMERVILLE...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
MIDDLESEX...SOUTH BOUND BROOK AROUND 200 PM...SOCIETY HILL AROUND
215 PM...NORTH PLAINFIELD...DUNELLEN AROUND 230 PM...WATCHUNG AND
COLONIA AROUND 245 PM.
AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL WITH THE SHOWERS AND
STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL
POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.
LAT...LON 4041 7455 4058 7472 4081 7439 4078 7436
4074 7436 4067 7445 4067 7440 4061 7443
4062 7431 4060 7430 4060 7421 4059 7420
4058 7420
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 9:51 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 5 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:24 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 1, 9:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 10:59 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland | 73 min |
| Aug 1, 12:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 107 min |
| Aug 1, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 1:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 2:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 3:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:31 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 11 hr |
| Aug 1, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 5:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 102 min |
| Aug 1, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 6:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 8:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 63 min |
| Aug 1, 1:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 4:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 67 min |
| Aug 1, 5:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 12 min |
| Aug 1, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe | 106 min |
| Aug 1, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 5:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 100 min |
| Aug 1, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe, Northampton | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 53 min |
| Aug 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 69 min |
| Aug 1, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Northampton | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Aug 1, 1:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 86 min |
| Aug 1, 1:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 1:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 58 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.