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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 90 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 25, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Burlington County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 504 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
733 WWUS81 KPHI 252115 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 515 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2012 NJZ019-252245- NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ- 515 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BURLINGTON COUNTY... AT 507 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MOORESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WILLINGBORO AROUND 530 PM...MOUNT HOLLY...NWS OFFICE AROUND 615 PM...JACKSONVILLE AND JOBSTOWN AROUND 630 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADWAYS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. THIS STORM WILL BRING HEAVY DOWNPOURS TO THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE, INTERSTATE 295 AND NEW JERSEY STATE ROUTE 38 IN BURLINGTON COUNTY. WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. LAT...LON 3990 7462 3993 7495 4000 7499 4016 7470 $$ TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 90 min |
| May 25, 2:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington | 2 hr |
| May 25, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth | 53 min |
| May 25, 3:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
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.