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 Sep 5, 2012, 9:28 AM EDT for Morris County, New Jersey. It was in force for 62 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
- Sep 5, 2012, 9:28 AM EDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2012, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Morris County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
649
WWUS81 KPHI 051328
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
928 AM EDT WED SEP 5 2012
NJZ007>010-051430-
HUNTERDON NJ-MORRIS NJ-SOMERSET NJ-WARREN NJ-
928 AM EDT WED SEP 5 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL AFFECT
PORTIONS OF HUNTERDON...MORRIS...SOMERSET AND WARREN COUNTIES...
AT 925 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES EAST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BEATTYESTOWN...CALIFON AROUND 935 AM...
HACKETTSTOWN AROUND 940 AM...LONG VALLEY AROUND 945 AM...BUDD LAKE
AROUND 950 AM...CHESTER AROUND 955 AM...PEAPACK AND GLADSTONE AND
SUCCASUNNA AROUND 1000 AM.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 4090 7433 4086 7432 4082 7432 4080 7436
4074 7436 4072 7438 4068 7445 4069 7500
4086 7499 4095 7429 4089 7428
$$
FORECASTER: GORSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 54 min |
| Sep 4, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Warren | 34 min |
| Sep 4, 9:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 10:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 56 min |
| Sep 4, 10:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 36 min |
| Sep 4, 10:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Sep 4, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 12:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 55 min |
| Sep 5, 8:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 58 min |
| Sep 5, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 45 min |
| Sep 5, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 40 min |
| Sep 5, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 26 min | |
| Sep 5, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 57 min |
| Sep 5, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 57 min |
| Sep 5, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 48 min | |
| Sep 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 4:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Ocean | 56 min |
| Sep 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 43 min | |
| Sep 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 81 min |
| Sep 5, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland | 23 min |
| Sep 5, 5:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 98 min |
| Sep 5, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 6:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 60 min |
| Sep 5, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 73 min |
| Sep 5, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 67 min |
| Sep 5, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 61 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.