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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2012, 11:48 PM EDT for Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 57 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
- May 4, 2012, 11:48 PM EDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2012, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
108
WWUS81 KPHI 050348
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1148 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012
NJZ013-014-020-026-050445-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-OCEAN NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
1148 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012
...A CLUSTER PF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MONMOUTH AND OCEAN
COUNTIES...
AT 1142 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 13 MILES NORTH OF TOMS RIVER...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
LAKEWOOD...CEDAR GLEN WEST AROUND MIDNIGHT...LEISURE VILLAGE
EAST...LEISURE VILLAGE AROUND 1215 AM...SILVERTON...HOLIDAY
CITY-DOVER AROUND 1230 AM...LAVALLETTE AND GILFORD PARK AROUND 1245
AM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND AS MUCH AS ONE AND
ONE-HALF INCHES OF RAIN COULD FALL IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS MUCH
RAIN WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE
DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.
LAT...LON 3998 7405 3998 7404 3989 7408 3980 7407
3969 7413 3959 7421 3961 7422 3962 7422
3964 7424 4008 7451 4035 7421 4017 7401
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 11:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 66 min |
| May 5, 3:27 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more | 21 hr |
| May 4, 9:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 66 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 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.