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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
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
$$
NCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Wicomico | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Wicomico | 11 min |
| Aug 9, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Wicomico | 29 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.