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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 6, 2016Mercer County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2016, 5:40 PM EDT for Mercer County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 50 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 6, 2016, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Mercer County, NJ, Bucks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

As transmitted.

535 
WWUS81 KPHI 062140
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
540 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016
 
NJZ009-010-012-013-015-019-PAZ061-062-105-106-062230-
SOMERSET-WESTERN MONMOUTH-HUNTERDON-MERCER-MIDDLESEX-NORTHWESTERN
BURLINGTON-NORTHAMPTON-LOWER BUCKS-LEHIGH-UPPER BUCKS-
540 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MERCER...SOUTHEASTERN
HUNTERDON...WEST CENTRAL MONMOUTH...SOUTHWESTERN SOMERSET...
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLESEX...NORTHERN BURLINGTON...SOUTHERN
NORTHAMPTON...SOUTHEASTERN LEHIGH AND CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTIES...

AT 540 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM OTTSVILLE TO SKILLMAN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TRENTON...HOWELL...SOUTH BRUNSWICK...MANALAPAN...EWING...PRINCETON...
DOYLESTOWN...BYRAM...BEDMINSTER...JAMESBURG...HIGHTSTOWN...
FLEMINGTON...TINICUM...CRANBURY...PENNINGTON...NEW HOPE...YARDLEY...
NEWTOWN...DUBLIN AND HOPEWELL.

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 4016 7492 4019 7419 4050 7471 4055 7544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 295DEG 27KT 4046 7519 4041 7474 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	36 min
Aug 6, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	40 min
Aug 6, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset	39 min
Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	50 min
Aug 6, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	50 min
Aug 6, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	49 min
Aug 6, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	4 hr
Aug 6, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	23 min
Aug 6, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	50 min
Aug 6, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		57 min
Aug 6, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	35 min
Aug 6, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	34 min
Aug 6, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	30 min
Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Montgomery	24 min
Aug 6, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	35 min
Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	46 min
Aug 6, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	34 min
Aug 6, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Montgomery	34 min
Aug 6, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	35 min
Aug 6, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	26 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.