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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 3, 2010Burlington County, Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 3, 2010, 2:10 PM EDT for Burlington County, Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 50 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: Jun 3, 2010, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2010, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 889 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 3, 1:39 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:39 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 1:41 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:10 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
210 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2010

NJZ013-014-019-020-026-027-031900-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
210 PM EDT THU JUN 3 2010

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING...

BETWEEN NOW AND 300 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO
DEVELOP IN THE COUNTIES OF MONMOUTH...BURLINGTON AND OCEAN.

AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND THEY WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3977 7408 3951 7427 3965 7421 3957 7433
      3951 7428 3950 7432 3962 7466 3978 7481
      3978 7490 3999 7507 4017 7469 4013 7460
      4018 7460 4046 7413 4041 7403 4025 7406
      4027 7397 4026 7397 4025 7397

IOVINO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 8:44 PM EDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	PHI		9 hr
Jun 3, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	62 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	59 min
Jun 3, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	52 min
Jun 3, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	56 min
Jun 3, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	88 min
Jun 3, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	91 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2010 Every special weather statement in 2010

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.