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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 1, 2012Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jan 1, 2012, 6:19 PM EST for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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
Jan 1, 2012, 6:19 PM EST (23:19 UTC)
Expired
Jan 1, 2012, 7:15 PM EST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-01-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-01-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 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.

775 
WWUS81 KPHI 012319
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
619 PM EST SUN JAN 1 2012

NJZ014-020-022-025>027-020015-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
619 PM EST SUN JAN 1 2012

...SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT 
ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 617 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS 6 MILES EAST OF TOMS 
RIVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR 
MANASQUAN AND SEA GIRT AROUND 630 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE SHOWERS.

LAT...LON 3974 7409 3951 7426 3950 7433 3953 7434
      3953 7440 3949 7438 3949 7432 3946 7429
      3937 7441 3976 7476 4013 7411 4012 7410
      4014 7409 4019 7400

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 1, 4:02 PM ESTGale WatchPHI15 hr

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.