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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 14, 20115 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 14, 2011, 2:53 PM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 67 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: Oct 14, 2011, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 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.

944 
WWUS81 KPHI 141853
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
253 PM EDT FRI OCT 14 2011

NJZ008>010-012-015-018-019-027-PAZ069-142000-
BUCKS PA-CAMDEN NJ-HUNTERDON NJ-MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-MORRIS NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-SOMERSET NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
253 PM EDT FRI OCT 14 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BUCKS...BURLINGTON...CAMDEN...
HUNTERDON...MERCER...MIDDLESEX...MORRIS AND SOMERSET COUNTIES...

AT 249 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF
EASTON TO 5 MILES NORTH OF VINELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR RAMBLEWOOD...RIVERSIDE AROUND 300 PM...NWS
OFFICE...LUMBERTON AROUND 315 PM...BUDD LAKE...TABERNACLE AROUND 330
PM...MOUNT ARLINGTON...NETCONG AROUND 345 PM...MARTINSVILLE AND
KENDALL PARK AROUND 400 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 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4101 7456 4021 7455 4016 7461 4005 7454
      3982 7454 3970 7469 3973 7474 3961 7489
      3968 7493 3972 7502 3977 7506 3999 7507
      4003 7499 4011 7497 4017 7508 4064 7510
      4070 7498 4091 7472 4091 7466 4096 7464

$$

FORECASTER: AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 14, 12:15 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more	13 hr
Oct 14, 3:26 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	19 hr
Oct 14, 4:01 AM EDT	Gale Watch	PHI		12 hr
Oct 14, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	54 min
Oct 14, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex, Warren	63 min
Oct 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Gale Watch	PHI		12 hr
Oct 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Gale Warning	PHI		27 hr
Oct 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris	61 min
Oct 14, 10:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	60 min
Oct 14, 11:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh	52 min
Oct 14, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	80 min
Oct 14, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	54 min
Oct 14, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Monroe, Northampton	53 min
Oct 14, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	62 min
Oct 14, 11:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	54 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2011 Every 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.