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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, 1:21 AM EDT for Sussex County, New Jersey. It was in force for 24 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, 1:21 AM EDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2016, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Sussex County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

108 
WWUS81 KPHI 140521
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
121 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016
 
NJZ001-007-008-PAZ055-140545-
SUSSEX-MORRIS-WARREN-MONROE-
121 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN WARREN...
SUSSEX...NORTHERN MORRIS AND NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTIES...

AT 121 AM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM DINGMANS FERRY TO HOPATCONG...AND MOVING EAST AT 40
MPH.

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

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PORT JERVIS...NEWTON...MONTAGUE...DOVER...HOPATCONG...LINCOLN PARK...
KINNELON...BOONTON...BUTLER...WHARTON...ROCKAWAY...MOUNT ARLINGTON...
FRANKLIN...MOUNTAIN LAKES...STANHOPE...RIVERDALE...HAMBURG...
NETCONG...OGDENSBURG AND SUSSEX.

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 4120 7437 4110 7449 4104 7450 4105 7445
      4102 7443 4100 7430 4090 7427 4087 7478
      4117 7528 4122 7514 4115 7515 4114 7509
      4108 7503 4116 7490 4132 7480 4135 7475
      4136 7469
TIME...MOT...LOC 0521Z 259DEG 34KT 4121 7490 4095 7466 
$$

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, 12:09 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, 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.