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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2011, 8:47 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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
- May 4, 2011, 8:47 AM EDT (12:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2011, 9:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Cape May County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
740
WWUS81 KPHI 041247
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
847 AM EDT WED MAY 4 2011
NJZ020-022>027-041345-
ATLANTIC NJ-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-
COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
847 AM EDT WED MAY 4 2011
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...CAPE MAY
AND OCEAN COUNTIES...
AT 844 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAPE MAY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SEA ISLE CITY...STRATHMERE
AROUND 900 AM...OCEAN CITY...PLEASANTVILLE AROUND 915 AM...TUCKERTON
AND MYSTIC ISLAND AROUND 930 AM.
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 3950 7428 3953 7440 3949 7438 3949 7432
3945 7429 3935 7441 3930 7455 3920 7464
3907 7471 3902 7479 3899 7479 3894 7487
3899 7497 3908 7492 3968 7442 3960 7427
3957 7431 3952 7429 3959 7426 3957 7421
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 58 min |
| May 3, 9:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 47 min |
| May 4, 7:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 56 min |
| May 4, 7:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 62 min |
| May 4, 8:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 59 min |
| May 4, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| May 4, 10:13 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| May 4, 11:06 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| May 4, 11:27 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 4 hr | |
| May 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 27 hr | |
| May 3, 8:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 39 min |
| May 3, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 30 min |
| May 4, 7:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 57 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.