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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 7, 2012Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 7, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 42 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
Jun 7, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2012, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2012-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2012-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 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.

993 
WWUS81 KPHI 071648
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1248 PM EDT THU JUN 7 2012

NJZ020-026-071730-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
1248 PM EDT THU JUN 7 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT OCEAN COUNTY...

AT 1243 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF TOMS RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BEACH HAVEN WEST...SHIP BOTTOM
AROUND 100 PM...SURF CITY AND HARVEY CEDARS AROUND 115 PM.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
EXPECT DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM.

IF YOU SEE THREATENING WEATHER, PLEASE MOVE OFF THE BEACHES QUICKLY.

LAT...LON 3969 7413 3955 7423 3954 7425 3956 7438
      3978 7433 3979 7418 3975 7418 3972 7415
      3974 7414 3977 7415 3979 7412 3979 7409
      3977 7408

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:51 AM EDTCoastal Flood StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more23 hr
Jun 7, 2:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic54 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonmouth62 min
Jun 7, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean47 min
Jun 7, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic34 min
Jun 7, 6:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean48 min
Jun 7, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic41 min
Jun 7, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington41 min
Jun 7, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI63 min
Jun 7, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic60 min
Jun 7, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks35 min
Jun 7, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot48 min

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.