Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 30, 2016, 5:52 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; 5 counties in 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
- May 30, 2016, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2016, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Berks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
524
WWUS81 KPHI 302152
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
552 PM EDT MON MAY 30 2016
NJZ001-007>009-PAZ054-055-060>062-101-103-105-302315-
SUSSEX-MORRIS-HUNTERDON-WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-BERKS-WESTERN
CHESTER-NORTHAMPTON-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-LEHIGH-UPPER BUCKS-
552 PM EDT MON MAY 30 2016
AT 549 PM EDT...SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. THEY WERE MOVING GENERALLY EAST AT 30
MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALLENTOWN...READING...EASTON...PORT JERVIS...NEWTON...LEHIGHTON...MONTAGUE...
MOUNT POCONO...BETHLEHEM...POTTSTOWN...HOPATCONG...FORKS...EMMAUS...
WYOMISSING...NORTHAMPTON...EAST STROUDSBURG...HACKETTSTOWN...TOBYHANNA...
WILSON AND WASHINGTON.
LAT...LON 4120 7437 4108 7449 4012 7587 4050 7639
4057 7602 4065 7598 4074 7576 4091 7599
4101 7573 4109 7577 4112 7564 4123 7551
4125 7513 4115 7515 4114 7509 4108 7503
4116 7490 4132 7480 4136 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 252DEG 26KT 4087 7607
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 10:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 6 hr |
| May 29, 11:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 12:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex | 24 min |
| May 30, 12:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 25 min |
| May 30, 5:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 3 hr |
| May 30, 1:56 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 4 hr |
| May 30, 4:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 118 min |
| May 30, 4:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 117 min |
| May 29, 8:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 4 hr |
| May 29, 10:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 51 min |
| May 29, 11:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 22 min |
| May 30, 5:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2016Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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.