Alert archive / New Jersey / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this freeze warning at Mar 27, 2012, 3:28 PM EDT for 6 counties in New Jersey. It took effect at Mar 28, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2012, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2012, 3:02 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916 WWUS71 KPHI 271928 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 328 PM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 NJZ009-010-020>022-027-280900- /O.NEW.KPHI.FZ.W.0002.120328T0400Z-120328T1000Z/ HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...JACKSON... MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...WHARTON STATE FOREST 328 PM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. * TEMPERATURES...DROPPING INTO THE UPPER 20S TO AROUND 30. * IMPACTS...DUE TO AN UNUSUALLY WARM WINTER AND EARLY SPRING... THE GROWING SEASON HAS BEGUN AROUND THE REGION. ANY VEGETATION SUSCEPTIBLE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVER A PERIOD OF THREE OR MORE HOURS WOULD BE AT RISK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ MEOLA
2 follow-up statements
701 WWUS71 KPHI 280131 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 931 PM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 NJZ009-010-020>022-027-281000- /O.CON.KPHI.FZ.W.0002.120328T0400Z-120328T1000Z/ HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...JACKSON... MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...WHARTON STATE FOREST 931 PM EDT TUE MAR 27 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * TEMPERATURES...DROPPING INTO THE UPPER 20S TO AROUND 30. * IMPACTS...DUE TO AN UNUSUALLY WARM WINTER AND EARLY SPRING... THE GROWING SEASON HAS BEGUN AROUND THE REGION. ANY VEGETATION SUSCEPTIBLE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES OVER A PERIOD OF THREE OR MORE HOURS WOULD BE AT RISK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$
091 WWUS71 KPHI 280702 NPWPHI URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 302 AM EDT WED MAR 28 2012 NJZ009-010-020>022-027-280815- /O.CAN.KPHI.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120328T1000Z/ HUNTERDON-SOMERSET-OCEAN-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLEMINGTON...SOMERVILLE...JACKSON... MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON...WHARTON STATE FOREST 302 AM EDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK ACROSS THE REGION...AND WILL REMAIN STEADY OR SLOWLY RISE FOR THE REST OF THE EARLY MORNING. $$ HAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 9:39 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 19 hr | |
| Mar 27, 3:11 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 55 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in New Jersey, 2012Every freeze warning in 2012
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.