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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Dec 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EST for Hunterdon 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
- Dec 18, 2012, 2:00 PM EST (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2012, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Hunterdon County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
130
WWUS81 KPHI 181900
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
200 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012
NJZ007>010-012-182000-
HUNTERDON NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-MORRIS NJ-SOMERSET NJ-WARREN NJ-
200 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012
...A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT
HUNTERDON...MIDDLESEX...MORRIS...SOMERSET AND WARREN COUNTIES...
AT 154 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE NEAR LEBANON...CLINTON AROUND 215 PM...WHITE HOUSE
STATION...WHITE HOUSE STATION AROUND 230 PM...BRIDGEWATER...
BRIDGEWATER AROUND 245 PM...WATCHUNG AND NORTH PLAINFIELD AROUND 300
PM.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS.
LAT...LON 4054 7507 4057 7511 4058 7514 4072 7519
4074 7518 4088 7442 4080 7435 4073 7437
4067 7445 4067 7439 4062 7442 4060 7444
4062 7431 4060 7429 4060 7421
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 12:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Dec 18, 3:51 AM EST | Gale Warning | PHI | 30 hr | |
| Dec 18, 1:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 64 min |
| Dec 18, 1:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 52 min |
| Dec 18, 1:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 2:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 55 min |
| Dec 18, 2:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 61 min |
| Dec 18, 2:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 3:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 52 min |
| Dec 18, 3:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 66 min |
| Dec 18, 3:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 64 min |
| Dec 18, 3:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 1:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 56 min |
| Dec 18, 2:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 60 min |
| Dec 18, 2:23 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 52 min |
| Dec 17, 11:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 29 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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.