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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 19, 2011Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2011, 5:21 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 54 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 19, 2011, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2011, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 143 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

530 
WWUS81 KPHI 192121
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
521 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

NJZ012-013-015-017>020-027-PAZ069-192215-
BUCKS PA-CAMDEN NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
521 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BUCKS...BURLINGTON...CAMDEN...
GLOUCESTER...MERCER...MIDDLESEX...MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 516 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTH OF
TRENTON TO 17 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN TO 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF
VINELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
LUMBERTON...MEDFORD AROUND 525 PM...MOUNT HOLLY AROUND 530 PM...
FLORENCE AROUND 535 PM...JACKSONVILLE AROUND 540 PM...FIELDSBORO
AROUND 600 PM...LEISURETOWNE AND BORDENTOWN AROUND 605 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. 
GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4036 7455 4004 7453 3981 7462 3963 7492
      3983 7486 4008 7487

$$

ROBERTSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 8:29 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHIMorris4 days
May 19, 3:35 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningPHIEssex, Morris, Passaic4 days
May 19, 10:26 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningPHIEssex, Passaic65 hr
May 19, 10:28 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningPHIPassaic11 hr
May 19, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem56 min
May 19, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren56 min
May 19, 3:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem3 hr
May 19, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon67 min
May 19, 3:34 PM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasPHI12 hr
May 19, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren53 min
May 19, 3:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Warren5 hr
May 19, 3:52 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more8 hr
May 19, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden, Gloucester58 min
May 19, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester54 min
May 19, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren55 min
May 19, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon59 min
May 19, 4:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren4 hr
May 19, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren50 min
May 19, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI62 min
May 19, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex47 min
May 19, 6:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland, Salem52 min
May 19, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester56 min
May 19, 7:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden55 min
May 19, 12:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks89 min
May 19, 1:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks5 hr
May 19, 1:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks61 min
May 19, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks41 min
May 19, 2:54 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton3 hr
May 19, 3:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon60 min
May 19, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHILehigh, Northampton55 min
May 19, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICarbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton63 min
May 19, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIChester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia60 min
May 19, 4:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe57 min
May 19, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks62 min
May 19, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe55 min
May 19, 7:23 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHIMontgomery, Philadelphia82 min
May 18, 9:10 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryPHICaroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot11 hr
May 18, 11:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline59 min
May 19, 12:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline94 min
May 19, 12:43 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIKent, Queen Anne's32 min
May 19, 12:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil66 min
May 19, 1:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline60 min
May 19, 1:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICaroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's6 hr
May 19, 3:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot51 min
May 19, 4:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil, Kent, Queen Anne's88 min
May 19, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICecil, Kent62 min
May 19, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, New Castle46 min
May 19, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent34 min
May 19, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent29 min
May 19, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, New Castle53 min
May 19, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent30 min
May 19, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, New Castle18 min
May 19, 6:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex67 min

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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.