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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2020, 10:18 PM EDT for Warren County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 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, 10:18 PM EDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2020, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Warren County, NJ, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 2117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.3
The text
As transmitted.
959
WWUS81 KPHI 030218
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
1018 PM EDT Sun Aug 2 2020
NJZ001-007-PAZ055-062-030300-
Sussex-Warren-Monroe-Northampton-
1018 PM EDT Sun Aug 2 2020
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN SUSSEX...NORTHERN
WARREN...SOUTHEASTERN MONROE AND NORTHEASTERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
At 1017 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Belfast, or 9
miles northwest of Easton, moving northeast at 45 mph.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph are possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Blairstown, Nazareth, Bangor, Pen Argyl, Wind Gap, Bath, Belvidere,
Hope, Belfast, Tatamy, East Bangor, Great Meadows-Vienna,
Allamuchy-Panther Valley, Saylorsburg, Greendell, Millbrook, Delaware
Water Gap, Columbia, Roseto and Stockertown.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania near mile marker 314.
Interstate 80 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 23.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4112 7491 4092 7474 4091 7476 4089 7479
4071 7537 4083 7546
TIME...MOT...LOC 0217Z 239DEG 38KT 4081 7532
$$
JEOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 36 min | |
| Aug 2, 8:53 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean | 51 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:53 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean | 51 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 11:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and 1 more | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 5:08 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 39 hr |
| Aug 3, 4:26 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more | 38 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 12 min | |
| Aug 3, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 22 min |
| Aug 3, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Mercer, Monmouth | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 62 min |
| Aug 3, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 73 min | |
| Aug 3, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 25 min |
| Aug 3, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 4:26 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 27 hr |
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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.