Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 45 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 13, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2016, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 2757 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted.
507 WWUS81 KPHI 140100 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 900 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016 NJZ009-015-PAZ061-062-103-105-106-140145- HUNTERDON-MERCER-NORTHAMPTON-WESTERN MONTGOMERY-LOWER BUCKS-LEHIGH-UPPER BUCKS- 900 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN MERCER... SOUTHWESTERN HUNTERDON...SOUTH CENTRAL NORTHAMPTON...SOUTHEASTERN LEHIGH...NORTHWESTERN BUCKS AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTIES... AT 900 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR QUAKERTOWN...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF ALLENTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... QUAKERTOWN...PERKASIE...DOYLESTOWN...BYRAM...BEDMINSTER...TINICUM... NEW HOPE...DUBLIN...FERNDALE...FRENCHTOWN...MILFORD...STOCKTON... PLEASANT VALLEY...SPRINGTOWN...FRICKS...SAND BROOK...GARDENVILLE... SERGEANTSVILLE...REVERE AND OTTSVILLE. LAT...LON 4035 7551 4056 7535 4059 7486 4026 7496 TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 271DEG 25KT 4041 7539 $$ MWG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 48 min |
| Aug 13, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 48 min |
| Aug 13, 9:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 10:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 11:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 12:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 12:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 1:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe, Northampton | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 10:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 12:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 49 min |
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.