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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jan 22, 2021, 5:05 PM EST for Sussex County, New Jersey; Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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
- Jan 22, 2021, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2021, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Sussex County, NJ, Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
057
WWUS81 KPHI 222205
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
505 PM EST Fri Jan 22 2021
NJZ001-007-008-PAZ054-055-061-062-222300-
Morris-Sussex-Warren-Lehigh-Monroe-Northampton-Carbon-
505 PM EST Fri Jan 22 2021
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT NORTHERN MORRIS...SUSSEX...NORTHERN
WARREN...NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH...CARBON...MONROE AND NORTHERN
NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...
At 502 PM EST, snow showers were located along a line extending from
Matamoras to near Slabtown. Movement was southeast at 25 mph.
Visibilities may be locally reduced to less than a mile in the
heaviest snow showers, and winds may gust to 30 mph. Accumulating
snow is not expected.
Locations impacted include...
Newton, Lehighton, Montague, Mount Pocono, Hopatcong, East
Stroudsburg, Tobyhanna, Blairstown, Palmerton, Bangor, Franklin, Jim
Thorpe, Slatington, Pen Argyl, Nesquehoning, Hamburg, Wind Gap,
Weatherly, Ogdensburg and Sussex.
This includes the following highways...
Northeast Extension between mile markers 69 and 97.
Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 278 and 314.
Interstate 80 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 15.
Interstate 380 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 0 and 11.
Use extra caution if you must travel into or through these snow
showers. Rapid changes in visibility and potentially slick roads are
likely to lead to accidents.
LAT...LON 4119 7438 4110 7449 4104 7450 4105 7444
4104 7444 4068 7589 4074 7576 4091 7599
4101 7573 4109 7577 4112 7564 4119 7557
4124 7536 4125 7513 4115 7515 4114 7509
4108 7503 4116 7490 4132 7479 4136 7470
TIME...MOT...LOC 2202Z 328DEG 23KT 4135 7472 4092 7637
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 3:09 AM EST | Gale Watch | PHI | 12 hr | |
| Jan 22, 3:35 PM EST | Gale Warning | PHI | 27 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2021Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2021Every special weather statement in 2021
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.