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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 9, 2019Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2019, 2:34 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was in force for 26 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 9, 2019, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2019, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2019-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2019-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1279 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

724 
WWUS81 KPHI 091834
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
234 PM EDT Fri Aug 9 2019

NJZ007-009-015-PAZ061-062-105-091900-
Hunterdon-Warren-Mercer-Upper Bucks-Lehigh-Northampton-
234 PM EDT Fri Aug 9 2019

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT HUNTERDON...SOUTHWESTERN
WARREN...NORTH CENTRAL MERCER...EAST CENTRAL LEHIGH...NORTHWESTERN
BUCKS AND SOUTH CENTRAL NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...

At 233 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Springtown, or
9 miles east of Allentown, moving east at 35 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Easton, Bethlehem, Quakertown, Byram, Hellertown, Flemington,
Tinicum, Clinton, Alpha, Hopewell, Ferndale, Frenchtown, Lebanon,
Milford, Bloomsbury, Riegelsville, Stockton, Glendon, Pleasant Valley
and Revere.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

LAT...LON 4053 7476 4051 7477 4051 7480 4046 7476
      4038 7477 4046 7543 4066 7538 4065 7475
TIME...MOT...LOC 1833Z 274DEG 38KT 4055 7530 

$$

NC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland24 min
Aug 9, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic32 min
Aug 9, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Cape May, Cumberland33 min
Aug 9, 2:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot37 min
Aug 9, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWicomico47 min
Aug 9, 5:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWicomico11 min
Aug 9, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWicomico29 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.