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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 27, 2010Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 27, 2010, 9:19 PM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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: Oct 27, 2010, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 2010, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Oct 27, 8:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 8:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 27, 8:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 27, 3:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
356 PM EDT WED OCT 27 2010

NJZ021>023-025-027-272100-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
356 PM EDT WED OCT 27 2010

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...CAPE MAY
AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...

AT 354 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF MILLVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MAYS LANDING...ESTELL MANOR AROUND
415 PM...POMONA...ABSECON AROUND 430 PM...PORT REPUBLIC AND NEW
GRETNA AROUND 445 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3937 7446 3938 7446 3937 7448 3927 7499
      3947 7505 3971 7448 3944 7439 3941 7440
      3941 7439 3939 7438

HEAVENER

Special weather statement, Oct 27, 4:32 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
432 PM EDT WED OCT 27 2010

NJZ020-022-025>027-272115-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
432 PM EDT WED OCT 27 2010

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON AND OCEAN
COUNTIES...

AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF ATLANTIC CITY...MOVING EAST AT
45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR TUCKERTON AROUND 430 PM...BEACH
HAVEN...NORTH BEACH HAVEN AROUND 445 PM AND BARNEGAT LIGHT AROUND 500
PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3968 7412 3952 7425 3950 7433 3953 7434
      3953 7440 3949 7438 3947 7429 3942 7432
      3940 7439 3969 7450 3980 7417 3975 7418
      3972 7415 3975 7412 3977 7415 3977 7412
      3980 7413 3983 7408

HEAVENER

Special weather statement, Oct 27, 8:37 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 27, 9:19 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 8:00 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		7 hr
Oct 27, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	45 min
Oct 27, 10:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		24 min
Oct 28, 3:15 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PHI		12 hr
Oct 28, 3:13 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		4 days
Oct 27, 8:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Talbot	53 min
Oct 27, 9:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	54 min
Oct 27, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	27 min
Oct 27, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	50 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.