Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2017
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2017, 7:34 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Mercer County, New Jersey; Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 41 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 3, 2017, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2017, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
464 WWUS81 KPHI 032334 SPSPHI Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ 734 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2017 NJZ009-010-012-015-PAZ105-106-040015- Hunterdon-Somerset-Middlesex-Mercer-Lower Bucks-Upper Bucks- 734 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2017 ...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN HUNTERDON...MERCER...SOUTHWESTERN SOMERSET...SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLESEX AND CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTIES... At 733 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were clustered over New Hope, or 14 miles northwest of Trenton, moving northeast at 15 mph. Winds up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with these storms. Locations impacted include... Trenton, Ewing, Princeton, Doylestown, Byram, Bedminster, Flemington, Tinicum, Cranbury, Pennington, New Hope, Yardley, Newtown, Dublin, Hopewell, Langhorne, Frenchtown, Lebanon, Rocky Hill and Stockton. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms, and may cause localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. LAT...LON 4017 7497 4043 7526 4066 7481 4032 7448 TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 234DEG 15KT 4035 7496 $$ CMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 58 min | |
| Aug 3, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 85 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 88 min | |
| Aug 3, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean | 38 min |
| Aug 3, 5:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Somerset | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 6:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 55 min |
| Aug 3, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 66 min |
| Aug 3, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 7:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks, Philadelphia | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Philadelphia | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 21 min |
| Aug 3, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 3:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 5:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 7:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
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.