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 Oct 4, 2012, 2:49 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 71 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
- Oct 4, 2012, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 71 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Warren County, NJ, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 041849
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
249 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
NJZ007-009-PAZ062-042000-
HUNTERDON NJ-NORTHAMPTON PA-WARREN NJ-
249 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
...AN AREA OF SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT WARREN...
HUNTERDON AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
AT 245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL 5 MILES WEST OF EASTON...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE SHOWER WILL BE NEAR FORKS...TATAMY...
WILSON...WEST EASTON AROUND 255 PM...EASTON...BANGOR...ROSETO AROUND
300 PM...PHILLIPSBURG...BANGOR AND EAST BANGOR AROUND 305 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS SHOWER...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...AS WELL AS LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS COULD ALSO
OCCUR.
LAT...LON 4098 7489 4054 7492 4060 7520 4061 7520
4060 7522 4064 7540 4083 7537 4087 7528
4088 7527
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 53 min |
| Oct 4, 3:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 92 min |
| Oct 4, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 79 min |
| Oct 4, 4:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris | 94 min |
| Oct 4, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 64 min |
| Oct 4, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe | 50 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2012Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.