Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2012, 7:03 PM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, Gloucester 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
- Jul 7, 2012, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 072303
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
703 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2012
NJZ016>022-027-080000-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAMDEN NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-SALEM NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
703 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2012
...GUST FRONT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT
ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...CAMDEN...CUMBERLAND...GLOUCESTER...OCEAN AND
SALEM COUNTIES...
AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
GUST FRONT FROM WEAKENING THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
8 MILES SOUTH OF TRENTON TO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILADELPHIA TO 11
MILES WEST OF PHILADELPHIA...MOVING SOUTH AT 40 MPH. THE GUST FRONT
WILL BE NEAR WESTAMPTON...MOORESTOWN-LENOLA AROUND 700
PM...WRIGHTSTOWN...FORT DIX AROUND 715 PM...PRESIDENTIAL
LAKES...CHATSWORTH AROUND 730 PM...WADING RIVER AND PENN STATE
FOREST AROUND 745 PM.
WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS GUST FRONT,
ESPECIALLY IN THE LOCAL PHILADELPHIA AREA. PLEASE BE ALERT FOR
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DO NOT WAIT FOR LIGHTNING TO TAKE PREVENTATIVE
MEASURES. WEAK TREE LIMBS AND LAWN FURNITURE CAN BE TOSSED AROUND.
LAT...LON 3943 7488 3941 7523 3982 7539 3985 7533
3985 7526 3988 7515 3997 7512 4007 7494
4008 7487 4013 7482 4013 7474 4015 7471
4018 7471 4014 7459 4008 7455 4009 7452
3972 7420
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 12:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 90 min |
| Jul 7, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Warren | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset, Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset | 46 min |
| Jul 7, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 96 min | |
| Jul 7, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton | 86 min |
| Jul 7, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | 48 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.