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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 2, 2020Hunterdon County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2020, 8:31 AM EDT for Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was in force for 29 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 2, 2020, 8:31 AM EDT (12:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Hunterdon County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

265 
WWUS81 KPHI 021231
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
831 AM EDT Sun Aug 2 2020

NJZ007-009-021300-
Hunterdon-Warren-
831 AM EDT Sun Aug 2 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN HUNTERDON AND
SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTIES...

At 831 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Bloomsbury, or
9 miles southeast of Easton, moving northeast at 25 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Washington, High Bridge, Clinton, Alpha, Glen Gardner, Hampton,
Lebanon, Milford, Califon, Bloomsbury, Pleasant Valley, Annandale,
White House Station and Brass Castle.

This includes Interstate 78 in New Jersey between mile markers 2 and
26.
 
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

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

LAT...LON 4080 7486 4079 7489 4074 7483 4074 7480
      4065 7472 4064 7473 4062 7471 4059 7472
      4055 7508 4057 7511 4058 7514 4065 7518
      4083 7489
TIME...MOT...LOC 1231Z 245DEG 21KT 4062 7507 

$$

Staarmann

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 7:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	3 hr
Aug 2, 8:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	24 min
Aug 2, 8:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	3 hr
Aug 2, 3:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	48 hr
Aug 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Tropical Storm Watch	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 8 more	18 hr
Aug 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	31 min
Aug 2, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	31 min
Aug 2, 3:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	4 hr
Aug 2, 4:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	4 hr
Aug 2, 6:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	45 min
Aug 2, 6:37 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	23 min
Aug 2, 6:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	34 min
Aug 2, 7:13 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Lehigh, Northampton	3 hr
Aug 2, 7:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	31 min
Aug 2, 7:39 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	36 min
Aug 2, 7:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	84 min
Aug 2, 7:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	36 min
Aug 2, 8:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	36 min
Aug 2, 8:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Berks	3 hr
Aug 2, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	39 min
Aug 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Watch	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	24 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.