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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 4, 2015Morris County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 3:36 AM EDT for Morris County, New Jersey. It was in force for 24 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: Aug 4, 2015, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Morris County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1050 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

678 
WWUS81 KPHI 040736
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
336 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015
 
NJZ001-008-040800-
SUSSEX-MORRIS-
336 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN MORRIS AND
SOUTHEASTERN SUSSEX COUNTIES...

AT 336 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HOPATCONG...OR 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF NEWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEWTON...DOVER...HOPATCONG...LINCOLN PARK...KINNELON...BOONTON...
BUTLER...WHARTON...ROCKAWAY...MOUNT ARLINGTON...FRANKLIN...MOUNTAIN
LAKES...STANHOPE...RIVERDALE...NETCONG...OGDENSBURG...VICTORY
GARDENS...ANDOVER...SUCCASUNNA AND LAKE MOHAWK.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4120 7437 4109 7450 4107 7449 4104 7450
      4105 7445 4102 7443 4103 7442 4100 7430
      4097 7428 4094 7428 4092 7429 4080 7465
      4103 7479 4121 7438
TIME...MOT...LOC 0736Z 246DEG 31KT 4096 7466 
$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 2:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	53 min
Aug 4, 2:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Warren	60 min
Aug 4, 2:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset	64 min
Aug 4, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Aug 4, 4:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester	63 min
Aug 4, 4:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	33 min
Aug 4, 5:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	65 min
Aug 4, 10:53 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	PHI	Cape May	4 hr
Aug 4, 12:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	54 min
Aug 4, 12:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia	60 min
Aug 4, 1:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	37 min
Aug 4, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	44 min
Aug 4, 1:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	48 min
Aug 4, 1:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	50 min
Aug 4, 5:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	57 min
Aug 4, 5:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	34 min
Aug 4, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	64 min
Aug 4, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	20 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.