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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 25, 2020Middlesex County, Morris County, Somerset County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2020, 6:13 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Morris County, Somerset County, New Jersey. It was in force for 47 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 25, 2020, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 2020-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2020-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

257 
WWUS81 KPHI 252213
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
613 PM EDT Tue Aug 25 2020

NJZ007>010-012>015-252300-
Morris-Hunterdon-Eastern Monmouth-Western
Monmouth-Somerset-Middlesex-Warren-Mercer-
613 PM EDT Tue Aug 25 2020

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN MORRIS...
NORTHEASTERN HUNTERDON...EAST CENTRAL WARREN...NORTH CENTRAL
MERCER...SOMERSET...NORTHEASTERN MONMOUTH AND MIDDLESEX COUNTIES...

At 613 PM EDT, radar indicated strong thunderstorms were located
along a line extending from Beatyestown to near Chester to Morris
Plains to Paterson. Movement was southeast at 65 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph are possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Morristown, Somerville, Sandy Hook,
Somerset, Edison, Middletown, Old Bridge, East Brunswick,
Bridgewater, South Brunswick, Sayreville, North Brunswick, Carteret,
Madison, Middlesex, Princeton, Florham Park and East Hanover.

This includes the following highways...
 New Jersey Turnpike between exits 10 and 13.
 Interstate 78 in New Jersey between mile markers 19 and 42.
 Interstate 80 in New Jersey between mile markers 41 and 47.
 Interstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 44.
 Garden State Parkway between mile markers 115 and 134.

LAT...LON 4033 7470 4085 7500 4084 7474 4092 7427
      4091 7427 4090 7433 4075 7436 4067 7446
      4065 7441 4060 7446 4060 7421 4056 7421
      4050 7428 4047 7427 4041 7403 4044 7400
      4048 7402 4048 7401 4040 7397
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 297DEG 54KT 4083 7484 4081 7467 4083 7450 4090
7418

$$

NC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex47 min
Aug 25, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex26 min
Aug 25, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Salem40 min
Aug 25, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI54 min
Aug 25, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren18 min
Aug 25, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Salem50 min
Aug 25, 6:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI57 min
Aug 25, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May, Cumberland43 min
Aug 25, 7:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI24 min
Aug 25, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle40 min
Aug 25, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, New Castle19 min
Aug 25, 7:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent45 min
Aug 25, 7:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot38 min

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.