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 Aug 11, 2016, 10:39 PM EDT for Sussex County, Warren County, New Jersey; 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 51 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 11, 2016, 10:39 PM EDT (02:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2016, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1333 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
466
WWUS81 KPHI 120239
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1039 PM EDT THU AUG 11 2016
NJZ001-007-PAZ054-055-060>062-120330-
SUSSEX-WARREN-CARBON-MONROE-BERKS-NORTHAMPTON-LEHIGH-
1039 PM EDT THU AUG 11 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WARREN...NORTHWESTERN
HUNTERDON...SUSSEX...NORTHWESTERN MORRIS...NORTHAMPTON...LEHIGH...
MONROE...NORTHEASTERN BERKS...NORTHWESTERN BUCKS...CARBON AND
NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTIES UNTIL ABOUT MIDNIGHT.
AT 1035 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED IN CARBON AND
MONROE COUNTIES WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY
MOVE SLOWLY SOUTH AND EAST.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO
OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO
NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 4120 7437 4092 7465 4091 7476 4071 7497
4042 7549 4045 7553 4036 7560 4062 7600
4074 7576 4091 7599 4101 7573 4109 7577
4112 7564 4123 7554 4125 7513 4115 7515
4108 7503 4116 7490 4132 7480 4136 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 294DEG 19KT 4084 7554
$$
JJMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 10:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Aug 11, 11:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:24 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 20 hr | |
| Aug 12, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 34 min |
| Aug 12, 3:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 56 min |
| Aug 12, 3:38 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 27 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 52 min |
| Aug 12, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Chester | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | 41 min |
| Aug 12, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent | 51 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.