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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 25, 2012Atlantic County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2012, 1:27 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 63 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, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Atlantic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.

684 
WWUS81 KPHI 251727
SPSPHI

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

NJZ022-024-025-251830-
ATLANTIC NJ-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-
127 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC AND CAPE MAY
COUNTIES...

AT 125 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF ATLANTIC CITY...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MARGATE CITY...LONGPORT AROUND 135
PM...VENTNOR CITY AROUND 140 PM...ATLANTIC CITY AROUND 145 PM AND
BRIGANTINE AROUND 150 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 3938 7440 3935 7441 3932 7450 3927 7456
      3925 7460 3927 7466 3929 7465 3929 7469
      3945 7462 3941 7435

$$

FORECASTER: HEAVENER

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, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	56 min
Jun 25, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 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.