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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

December 21, 2011Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Dec 21, 2011, 11:09 PM EST for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 36 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: Dec 21, 2011, 11:09 PM EST (04:09 UTC)
Expired: Dec 21, 2011, 11:45 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 425 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 436 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.

568 
WWUS81 KPHI 220409
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1109 PM EST WED DEC 21 2011

NJZ013-014-019-020-026-027-220445-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
1109 PM EST WED DEC 21 2011

...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS...

AT 1108 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
LINE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM LONG 
BRANCH TO JACKSON TO MOORESTOWN IN NEW JERSEY. THE LINE WAS MOVING 
EASTWARD AT 40 TO 45 MPH. IT WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN AS IT MOVES 
ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND OFF THE COAST BY 
AROUND MIDNIGHT.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 OR 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND 
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS.

LAT...LON 3974 7409 3957 7421 3950 7428 3994 7502
      3998 7503 3999 7499 4032 7397 4032 7396

$$

IOVINO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 21, 9:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset	51 min
Dec 21, 10:34 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Middlesex, Monmouth	41 min
Dec 21, 10:46 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	PHI		89 min
Dec 22, 3:35 PM EST	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	17 hr
Dec 22, 3:44 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		27 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.