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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 17, 2011Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT for Cape May County, New Jersey. It was in force for 60 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 17, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT (06:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2011, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cape May County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

788 
WWUS81 KPHI 170600
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
200 AM EDT FRI JUN 17 2011

NJZ023-024-170700-
ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-
200 AM EDT FRI JUN 17 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAPE MAY COUNTY...

AT 158 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF CAPE MAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
30 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM, AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND 
ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

LOCAL WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT 
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER 
TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM 
APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 3898 7498 3911 7490 3915 7490 3916 7491
      3928 7474 3921 7463 3912 7470 3910 7470
      3907 7471 3902 7479 3894 7486 3892 7493

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 9:32 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	4 hr
Jun 17, 4:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	51 min
Jun 17, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex, Warren	60 min
Jun 17, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	45 min
Jun 17, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex, Warren	57 min
Jun 17, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	59 min
Jun 17, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	60 min
Jun 17, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	57 min
Jun 17, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		25 min
Jun 17, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Philadelphia	55 min
Jun 17, 3:10 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	9 hr
Jun 17, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	56 min
Jun 17, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	58 min
Jun 17, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	52 min
Jun 16, 11:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	60 min
Jun 17, 12:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	54 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.