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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 10, 2014Morris County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 10, 2014, 4:11 PM EDT for Morris County, New Jersey. It was in force for 34 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: May 10, 2014, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2014, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Morris County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 128 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

272 
WWUS81 KPHI 102011
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
411 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2014

NJZ008-102045-
MORRIS NJ-
411 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY...

AT 408 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MORRISTOWN...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO NOT STAY 
IN THE OPEN NOR 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 FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN CAN CAUSE RAPID
RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. 

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR HANOVER TOWNSHIP AROUND 420 PM...EAST HANOVER
AROUND 425 PM AND LINCOLN PARK AROUND 435 PM.

LAT...LON 4089 7427 4090 7433 4084 7432 4079 7436
      4076 7437 4074 7455 4076 7455 4075 7460
      4085 7466 4095 7429 4094 7427 4092 7428
      4090 7426

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 9:20 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean	6 hr
May 10, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	53 min
May 10, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Somerset	38 min
May 10, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	40 min
May 10, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden	61 min
May 10, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	61 min
May 10, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	55 min
May 10, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	51 min
May 10, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
May 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset	45 min
May 10, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware	65 min
May 10, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	53 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.