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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 23, 2011Camden County, New Jersey; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2011, 5:18 PM EDT for Camden County, New Jersey; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 87 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 23, 2011, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2011, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
87 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Camden County, NJ, Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 2011-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 479 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 2011-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

766 
WWUS81 KPHI 232118
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
518 PM EDT THU JUN 23 2011

DEZ001-NJZ016>019-PAZ069>071-232245-
BUCKS PA-CAMDEN NJ-DELAWARE PA-GLOUCESTER NJ-NEW CASTLE DE-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-PHILADELPHIA PA-SALEM NJ-
518 PM EDT THU JUN 23 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BUCKS...BURLINGTON...CAMDEN...
DELAWARE...GLOUCESTER...NEW CASTLE...PHILADELPHIA AND SALEM
COUNTIES...

AT 517 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILMINGTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR GIBBSTOWN...
PAULSBORO AROUND 530 PM...GLOUCESTER CITY...NATIONAL PARK AROUND 545
PM...COLLINGSWOOD...MAPLE SHADE AROUND 600 PM...WILLINGBORO...
LUMBERTON AROUND 615 PM...JACKSONVILLE AND JOBSTOWN AROUND 630 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3957 7553 3958 7556 3956 7556 3953 7564
      3982 7558 4018 7478 3994 7462

$$

FORECASTER: NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 8:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex, Warren81 min
Jun 23, 9:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren59 min
Jun 23, 10:48 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMorris, Sussex3 hr
Jun 23, 11:37 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMorris, Sussex2 hr
Jun 23, 1:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex94 min
Jun 23, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonmouth58 min
Jun 23, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Ocean94 min
Jun 23, 6:50 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonroe55 min
Jun 23, 8:02 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon, Monroe88 min
Jun 23, 8:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2011Special Weather Statements in Pennsylvania, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011

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.