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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2016, 5:54 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 8, 2016, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Mercer County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 190 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
- 387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
567
WWUS81 KPHI 082154
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
554 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016
NJZ009-012-013-015-019-PAZ104-106-082230-
WESTERN MONMOUTH-HUNTERDON-MERCER-MIDDLESEX-NORTHWESTERN
BURLINGTON-EASTERN MONTGOMERY-LOWER BUCKS-
554 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST OUT OF BUCKS
AND MERCER COUNTIES...
AT 553 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM WASHINGTON CROSSING TO RICHBORO...AND MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TRENTON...BENSALEM...EWING...PRINCETON...FLORENCE...BURLINGTON...
BRISTOL...HATBORO...HIGHTSTOWN...BORDENTOWN...CRANBURY...
PENNINGTON...BEVERLY...YARDLEY...NEWTOWN...TULLYTOWN...ALLENTOWN...
LANGHORNE...IVYLAND AND LEVITTOWN.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
THESE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 4002 7483 4009 7496 4012 7497 4012 7498
4014 7501 4013 7502 4021 7516 4038 7486
4029 7440
TIME...MOT...LOC 2153Z 290DEG 17KT 4031 7485 4021 7502
$$
SFJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Salem, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 3:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 3:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 4:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 5:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 23 min |
| Jul 8, 6:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 7:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.