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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 25, 2012Cape May County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2012, 12:34 PM EDT for Cape May 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: Jun 25, 2012, 12:34 PM EDT (16:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2012, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cape May County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

134 
WWUS81 KPHI 251634
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1234 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2012

NJZ023-024-251730-
ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-
1234 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAPE MAY COUNTY...

AT 1230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CAPE MAY...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WILDWOOD CREST...WILDWOOD AROUND 100 PM...
NORTH WILDWOOD AROUND 115 PM AND STONE HARBOR AROUND 130 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3894 7498 3902 7496 3907 7492 3906 7475
      3904 7475 3901 7478 3899 7478 3893 7487
      3892 7491 3892 7497

$$

KRUZDLO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 12:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	95 min
Jun 25, 3:44 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		41 hr
Jun 25, 7:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer	55 min
Jun 25, 7:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	61 min
Jun 25, 7:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	59 min
Jun 25, 7:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	47 min
Jun 25, 8:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		83 min
Jun 25, 8:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset	108 min
Jun 25, 8:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	59 min
Jun 25, 9:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		38 min
Jun 25, 9:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		95 min
Jun 25, 9:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May	53 min
Jun 25, 10:04 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		56 min
Jun 25, 10:30 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PHI		7 hr
Jun 25, 10:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		60 min
Jun 25, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	28 min
Jun 25, 11:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	37 min
Jun 25, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	35 min
Jun 25, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 min
Jun 25, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	63 min
Jun 25, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		60 min
Jun 25, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jun 25, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Jun 25, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		49 min
Jun 25, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jun 25, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		40 min
Jun 25, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jun 25, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Somerset	44 min
Jun 25, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	66 min
Jun 25, 5:12 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		28 hr
Jun 25, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	55 min
Jun 25, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	63 min
Jun 25, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	59 min
Jun 25, 7:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	75 min
Jun 25, 8:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	28 min
Jun 25, 8:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	26 min
Jun 25, 9:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	13 min
Jun 25, 10:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	61 min
Jun 25, 10:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	26 min
Jun 25, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	29 min
Jun 25, 8:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Wicomico	24 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.