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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 14, 2016Sussex County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2016, 12:09 AM EDT for Sussex 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: Aug 14, 2016, 12:09 AM EDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2016, 12:45 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Sussex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

821 
WWUS81 KPHI 140409
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1209 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016
 
NJZ001-007-008-PAZ055-140445-
SUSSEX-MORRIS-WARREN-MONROE-
1209 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN WARREN...SOUTHWESTERN
SUSSEX...NORTHWESTERN MORRIS AND NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 1209 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER ECHO LAKE...OR 14
MILES EAST OF MOUNT POCONO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEWTON...HOPATCONG...EAST STROUDSBURG...BLAIRSTOWN...STANHOPE...
BRANCHVILLE...ANDOVER...MILLBROOK...GREENDELL...CRANDON LAKES...
PELLETTOWN...ECHO LAKE...WERRY LAKE...FLATBROOKVILLE...FIVE POINTS...
DELAWARE WATER GAP...LAKE MOHAWK...ALLAMUCHY-PANTHER VALLEY...HIDDEN
LAKE AND SHAWNEE.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4118 7466 4091 7468 4098 7518 4116 7516
      4114 7513 4114 7509 4108 7503 4109 7500
      4116 7490 4117 7490
TIME...MOT...LOC 0409Z 274DEG 25KT 4107 7508 
$$

SFJ

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, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	45 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, 12:39 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

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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.