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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 17, 2019Warren County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT for Warren 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: Jul 17, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2019, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Warren County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 1986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 865 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

As transmitted.

114 
WWUS81 KPHI 171821
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
221 PM EDT Wed Jul 17 2019

NJZ007-PAZ055-062-171845-
Warren-Monroe-Northampton-
221 PM EDT Wed Jul 17 2019

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL WARREN...SOUTH CENTRAL
MONROE AND NORTHEASTERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...

At 220 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Pen Argyl, or
15 miles north of Easton, moving east at 20 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Blairstown, Bangor, Pen Argyl, Wind Gap, Belvidere, Oxford, Hope,
East Bangor, Stormville, Saylorsburg, Delaware Water Gap, Columbia,
Great Meadows-Vienna, Stroudsburg, Roseto, Portland and Arlington
Heights.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 4085 7533 4097 7534 4100 7491 4081 7492
TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 270DEG 18KT 4091 7525 

$$

SFJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 3:50 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean	17 hr
Jul 17, 3:54 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 6 more	19 hr
Jul 17, 1:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex, Warren	80 min
Jul 17, 1:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex, Warren	32 min
Jul 17, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	32 min
Jul 17, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	31 min
Jul 17, 3:14 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Middlesex and 7 more	24 hr
Jul 17, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	38 min
Jul 17, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Morris, Sussex, Warren	51 min
Jul 17, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	45 min
Jul 17, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jul 17, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris	48 min
Jul 17, 7:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset	3 hr
Jul 17, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	46 min
Jul 17, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	64 min
Jul 16, 9:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Philadelphia	45 min
Jul 17, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Pike	34 min
Jul 17, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	25 min
Jul 17, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	40 min
Jul 17, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	46 min
Jul 17, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	46 min
Jul 17, 5:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monroe	119 min
Jul 17, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	41 min
Jul 17, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	51 min
Jul 17, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	40 min
Jul 17, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Montgomery	54 min
Jul 17, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	113 min
Jul 17, 7:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Jul 17, 7:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	97 min
Jul 17, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	44 min
Jul 17, 7:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 17, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	31 min
Jul 17, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	46 min
Jul 17, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	43 min

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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.