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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2021Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2021, 7:07 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Somerset County, New Jersey; Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 23 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
Jul 27, 2021, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2021, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 2021-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2021-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

318 
WWUS81 KPHI 272307
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
707 PM EDT Tue Jul 27 2021

NJZ007>010-012-PAZ062-105-272330-
Hunterdon-Morris-Somerset-Middlesex-Warren-Upper Bucks-Northampton-
707 PM EDT Tue Jul 27 2021

...AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT 
HUNTERDON...SOUTHERN MORRIS...SOUTHWESTERN WARREN...NORTHERN 
SOMERSET...NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX...NORTH CENTRAL BUCKS AND CENTRAL 
NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES...

At 706 PM EDT, radar indicated an outflow boundary from previous 
thunderstorms was located along a line extending from Florham Park 
to near Califon to Tatamy. Movement was southeast at 25 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph are possible with these showers. Little or 
no rain is expected.

Locations impacted include...
Easton, Morristown, Somerville, Bridgewater, Madison, Forks,
Middlesex, Florham Park, Bound Brook, Manville, Chatham, Wilson,
Washington, Nazareth, Mendham, High Bridge, Clinton, Harmony, Peapack
And Gladstone and Alpha.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 78 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 70 and 76.
 Interstate 78 in New Jersey between mile markers 0 and 43.
 Interstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 7 and 8, and
between mile markers 12 and 36.
 Garden State Parkway between mile markers 133 and 134.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

LAT...LON 4053 7464 4055 7528 4080 7539 4077 7481
      4081 7435 4079 7437 4076 7438 4075 7436
      4074 7437 4067 7446 4066 7445 4067 7441
      4065 7440 4060 7446 4061 7431 4059 7429
      4059 7420
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 334DEG 23KT 4077 7436 4073 7479 4075 7527 

$$

MPS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex, Warren24 min
Jul 27, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex23 min
Jul 27, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMorris25 min
Jul 27, 7:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex, Monmouth, Ocean35 min
Jul 27, 7:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset32 min
Jul 27, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Monroe42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2021Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 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.