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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 9, 2011Atlantic County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 63 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: Aug 9, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2011, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Atlantic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

166 
WWUS81 KPHI 091927
SPSPHI

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

NJZ020>027-092030-
ATLANTIC NJ-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-
COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
327 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...CAPE
MAY...CUMBERLAND AND OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 324 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES NORTHEAST
OF VINELAND TO 15 MILES WEST OF ATLANTIC CITY TO 14 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF MILLVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
WADING RIVER...DENNISVILLE AROUND 345 PM...NEW GRETNA...STRATHMERE
AROUND 400 PM...MYSTIC ISLAND...BEACH HAVEN AROUND 415 PM AND NORTH
BEACH HAVEN AROUND 430 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. 

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3954 7423 3950 7428 3950 7433 3953 7434
      3953 7440 3949 7438 3949 7432 3945 7429
      3935 7441 3930 7455 3928 7455 3924 7460
      3914 7468 3919 7505 3937 7482 3965 7477
      3961 7419

$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 12:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Gloucester	57 min
Aug 9, 12:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Gloucester	28 min
Aug 9, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	58 min
Aug 9, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	67 min
Aug 9, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	58 min
Aug 9, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	59 min
Aug 9, 2:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	3 hr
Aug 9, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	53 min
Aug 9, 2:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	3 hr
Aug 9, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		92 min
Aug 9, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester	87 min
Aug 9, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	81 min
Aug 9, 11:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	59 min
Aug 9, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	65 min
Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	62 min
Aug 9, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Talbot	85 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.