Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2014
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Sep 6, 2014, 3:25 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 2014, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 4:17 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Manalapan, NJ | TREES DOWN ON POWERLINES |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1867 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
810
WWUS81 KPHI 061925
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
325 PM EDT SAT SEP 6 2014
NJZ012-013-015-062030-
MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
325 PM EDT SAT SEP 6 2014
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MONMOUTH...MERCER AND
SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES...
AT 322 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR EWING...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
FREQUENT 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 LAWRENCEVILLE...AND MERCERVILLE-HAMILTON
SQUARE AROUND 330 PM...PRINCETON JUNCTION...EDINBURG...EDINBURG...AND
PRINCETON AROUND 340 PM...HIGHTSTOWN...WINDSOR...WINDSOR AND MONMOUTH
JUNCTION AROUND 350 PM.
LAT...LON 4019 7424 4019 7476 4021 7477 4027 7485
4038 7486 4039 7473 4038 7471 4039 7466
4038 7461 4038 7460 4041 7459 4044 7429
$$
FORECASTER: SFJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 53 min |
| Sep 6, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 59 min |
| Sep 6, 2:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex | 26 min |
| Sep 6, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 57 min |
| Sep 6, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 56 min | |
| Sep 6, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 36 min |
| Sep 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 43 min |
| Sep 6, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Sep 6, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Sep 6, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 64 min | |
| Sep 6, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 59 min |
| Sep 6, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 35 min |
| Sep 6, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 64 min | |
| Sep 6, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 62 min |
| Sep 6, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 43 min |
| Sep 6, 2:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 3:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 54 min |
| Sep 6, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 62 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.