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, 4:41 PM EDT for Sussex 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
- Aug 1, 2012, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 157 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.
499
WWUS81 KPHI 012041
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
441 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
NJZ001-012145-
SUSSEX NJ-
441 PM EDT WED AUG 1 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF MONTAGUE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MONTAGUE...HAINESVILLE AROUND 500 PM...
HIGH POINT AROUND 530 PM...SUSSEX AND VERNON VALLEY AROUND 545 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 4126 7448 4125 7445 4111 7448 4120 7488
4124 7487 4129 7484 4135 7476 4136 7469
$$
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, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 60 min |
| 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, 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.