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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Sep 15, 2021, 7:36 PM EDT for Hunterdon County, Morris County, New Jersey; Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 24 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
- Sep 15, 2021, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Montgomery County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted.
541
WWUS81 KPHI 152336
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
736 PM EDT Wed Sep 15 2021
NJZ001-007>010-PAZ060-061-101-103>105-160000-
Hunterdon NJ-Morris NJ-Sussex NJ-Somerset NJ-Warren NJ-
Upper Bucks PA-Lehigh PA-Eastern Montgomery PA-Western Montgomery PA-
Western Chester PA-Berks PA-
736 PM EDT Wed Sep 15 2021
...Gusty winds will impact portions of Hunterdon, Morris,
southeastern Sussex, southern Warren, northwestern Somerset,
southeastern Berks, southeastern Lehigh, northwestern Montgomery,
northwestern Bucks and northeastern Chester Counties through 800 PM
EDT...
At 734 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking an outflow boundary ahead
of an area of thunderstorms along a line extending from Upper
Greenwood Lake to near Pleasant Valley to near Birdsboro. Movement
was east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Morristown, Pottstown, Dover, Phoenixville, Lansdale, Hopatcong,
Lincoln Park, Kinnelon, Hackettstown, Quakertown, Perkasie, Byram,
Boonton, Butler, Souderton, Bedminster, Wharton, Washington, Rockaway
and Morris Plains.
This includes the following highways...
Northeast Extension between mile markers 28 and 46.
Interstate 78 in New Jersey between mile markers 2 and 28.
Interstate 80 in New Jersey between mile markers 21 and 46.
Interstate 287 in New Jersey between mile markers 31 and 33, and
between mile markers 36 and 54.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
These gusty winds will occur well ahead of any rain or lightning.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for
northwestern New Jersey...and eastern Pennsylvania.
&&
LAT...LON 4120 7436 4109 7450 4104 7450 4105 7445
4103 7442 4100 7430 4097 7428 4092 7428
4091 7434 4085 7437 4014 7544 4017 7591
4054 7534 4060 7520 4064 7519 4122 7439
TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 263DEG 43KT 4118 7438 4071 7502 4023 7577
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 3:25 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 21 hr | |
| Sep 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lebanon | 31 min |
| Sep 15, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 27 min |
| Sep 15, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 37 min |
| Sep 15, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh | 28 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.