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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2016Warren County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2016, 5:46 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 28, 2016, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Warren County, NJ, Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2016-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2016-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

081 
WWUS81 KPHI 282146
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
546 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2016
 
NJZ007-PAZ062-282215-
WARREN-NORTHAMPTON-
546 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL WARREN...NORTHAMPTON AND
SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 546 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NAZARETH...OR 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EASTON...BETHLEHEM...FORKS...HACKETTSTOWN...WILSON...WASHINGTON...
BLAIRSTOWN...NAZARETH...BANGOR...PEN ARGYL...WIND GAP...BATH...
BELVIDERE...HARMONY...OXFORD...HOPE...BELFAST...WEST EASTON...
TATAMY AND EAST BANGOR.

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

LAT...LON 4084 7484 4060 7532 4077 7552 4083 7540
      4083 7538 4086 7532 4086 7529 4090 7523
      4091 7524 4095 7515 4096 7514 4103 7500
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 249DEG 26KT 4075 7532 
$$

AMC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren62 min
Jun 28, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren52 min
Jun 28, 7:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIWarren3 hr
Jun 28, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon62 min
Jun 28, 6:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon, Monroe58 min
Jun 28, 6:57 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHINorthampton3 hr
Jun 28, 7:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot40 min
Jun 28, 12:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex3 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.