Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jan 23, 2016, 11:07 AM EST for 6 counties in New Jersey; Monroe County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 83 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
- Jan 23, 2016, 11:07 AM EST (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2016, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
724
WWUS81 KPHI 231607
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1107 AM EST SAT JAN 23 2016
NJZ001-007>010-012-015-PAZ054-055-062-105-231730-
SUSSEX-SOMERSET-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-MERCER-WARREN-MIDDLESEX-CARBON-
MONROE-NORTHAMPTON-UPPER BUCKS-
1107 AM EST SAT JAN 23 2016
...BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WITH BANDS OF VERY HEAVY SNOW THROUGH
EARLY AFTERNOON...
AT 11 AM...BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA LATE
THIS MORNING. THIS INCLUDES THE I-78 AND I-80 CORRIDOR. SNOWFALL
RATES OF 2 TO LOCALLY 4 INCHES PER HOUR ARE POSSIBLE UNDERNEATH THIS
BAND.
THE COMBINATIONS OF THE HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL PRODUCE
WHITEOUT CONDITIONS WITH VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO. TRAVEL WILL BE VERY
DANGEROUS TO NEAR IMPOSSIBLE AS SNOW ACCUMULATES FASTER THAN PLOWS
CAN KEEP UP WITH.
LAT...LON 4115 7515 4108 7503 4118 7488 4091 7432
4072 7440 4067 7446 4066 7445 4066 7443
4060 7446 4060 7421 4050 7426 4050 7428
4045 7423 4027 7441 4018 7462 4093 7567
4125 7513
TIME...MOT...LOC 1601Z 127DEG 20KT 4074 7475 4108 7552
$$
KLEINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 9:48 AM EST | Hurricane Force Wind Warning | PHI | 6 hr | |
| Jan 23, 3:11 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Salem | 22 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2016Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.