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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 9, 2011Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 1:17 PM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 9, 2011, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

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

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 9, 1:30 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMantua, NJTREE DOWN IN MANTUA TWP
Aug 9, 1:40 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGDeptford Twp, NJTREE DOWN IN DEPTFORD

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 2011-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 210 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 2011-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

470 
WWUS81 KPHI 091717
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
117 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

NJZ017>019-022-027-PAZ070-071-091815-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAMDEN NJ-DELAWARE PA-GLOUCESTER NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-PHILADELPHIA PA-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
117 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...
CAMDEN...DELAWARE...GLOUCESTER AND PHILADELPHIA COUNTIES...

AT 113 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES EAST OF WILMINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 40
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WENONAH...BLACKWOOD AROUND 130
PM...PINE VALLEY...BERLIN AROUND 145 PM...SHAMONG AND ATSION AROUND
200 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3991 7455 3960 7459 3977 7540 3989 7538

$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 12:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIGloucester57 min
Aug 9, 12:32 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIGloucester28 min
Aug 9, 1:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem58 min
Aug 9, 1:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem67 min
Aug 9, 2:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic59 min
Aug 9, 2:22 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICamden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem3 hr
Aug 9, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer, Middlesex, Monmouth53 min
Aug 9, 2:53 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMiddlesex, Morris, Somerset3 hr
Aug 9, 3:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic63 min
Aug 9, 4:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI92 min
Aug 9, 5:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIGloucester87 min
Aug 9, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem81 min
Aug 9, 11:46 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIChester, Delaware, Montgomery59 min
Aug 9, 12:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICecil65 min
Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent, Queen Anne's62 min
Aug 9, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot85 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.