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, 3:41 PM EDT for Morris County, New Jersey. It was in force for 79 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, 3:41 PM EDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Morris County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
580
WWUS81 KPHI 041941
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
341 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
NJZ001-007>010-042100-
HUNTERDON NJ-MORRIS NJ-SOMERSET NJ-SUSSEX NJ-WARREN NJ-
341 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012
...SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT WARREN...HUNTERDON...
MORRIS...SOMERSET AND SUSSEX COUNTIES...
AT 337 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES EAST
OF NEWTON TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF NEWTON TO 12 MILES EAST OF EASTON...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR HACKETTSTOWN AROUND
345 PM...STANHOPE...STANHOPE...NETCONG...HOPATCONG AROUND 355 PM...
LONG VALLEY AROUND 400 PM...MOUNT ARLINGTON...GREEN POND...SUCCASUNNA
AROUND 405 PM AND GREEN POND AROUND 410 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 AROUND 30 MPH
COULD ALSO OCCUR.
LAT...LON 4090 7433 4084 7432 4072 7443 4067 7505
4093 7492 4113 7463 4116 7442 4109 7449
4105 7449 4106 7445 4102 7438 4101 7430
4098 7427 4090 7427
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 71 min |
| 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, 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
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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.