Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jan 27, 2012, 10:31 AM EST for Gloucester County, Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 29 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 27, 2012, 10:31 AM EST (15:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2012, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties New Castle County, DE, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
930
WWUS81 KPHI 271531
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1031 AM EST FRI JAN 27 2012
DEZ001-002-MDZ008-012-015-NJZ016>018-021-022-271600-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAMDEN NJ-CECIL MD-CUMBERLAND NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-KENT DE-
KENT MD-NEW CASTLE DE-QUEEN ANNE'S MD-SALEM NJ-
1031 AM EST FRI JAN 27 2012
...SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL AFFECT CAMDEN...GLOUCESTER...NEW CASTLE...CECIL...KENT...QUEEN
ANNE'S...ATLANTIC...SALEM AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 1028 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMDEN TO 16 MILES SOUTH OF
MIDDLETOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR
BELLMAWR...HADDON HEIGHTS...MOUNT EPHRAIM...AUDUBON AROUND 1035
AM...SOMERDALE...MAGNOLIA...LAWNSIDE...GLENDORA AROUND 1040
AM...WOODLAND BEACH AND TURNERSVILLE AROUND 1045 AM.
A BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE SHOWERS...AND WILL
CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS.
IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE SHOWERS.
LAT...LON 3956 7580 3968 7554 3965 7554 3969 7552
3991 7505 3947 7487 3930 7532 3934 7534
3935 7539 3943 7547 3946 7555 3950 7556
3946 7558 3932 7543 3927 7541 3906 7600
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 4:54 AM EST | Gale Warning | PHI | 20 hr | |
| Jan 27, 8:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 93 min |
| Jan 27, 9:38 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 82 min | |
| Jan 27, 10:27 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Jan 27, 11:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 54 min |
| Jan 27, 2:15 PM EST | Wind Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 27, 9:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 56 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2012Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2012Every special weather statement 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.