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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 7, 2012Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2012, 10:53 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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, 10:53 PM EDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2012, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

785 
WWUS81 KPHI 080253
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1053 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2012

NJZ013-019-020-026-027-080345-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
1053 PM EDT SAT JUL 7 2012

...THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF BURLINGTON...MONMOUTH AND 
OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 1048 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRENTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST 
AT 40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR NEW EGYPT AND WOODRUFF 
AROUND 1100 PM...HOLIDAY CITY AND PINE RIDGE AT CRESTWOOD AROUND 
1115 PM...HOLIDAY HEIGHTS AND BEACHWOOD AROUND 1130 PM...AND 
BARNEGAT LIGHT AND HARVEY CEDARS AROUND 1145 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.

DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. 
IF YOU HEAR THUNDER...PLEASE MOVE INDOORS. 

LAT...LON 3989 7408 3980 7407 3968 7414 4004 7482
      4013 7475 4015 7471 4018 7470 4014 7462
      4014 7459 4018 7462 4019 7457 4023 7452
      4006 7403

$$

MPD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:33 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI44 min
Jul 7, 10:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren55 min
Jul 7, 11:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex, Monmouth56 min
Jul 7, 11:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren54 min
Jul 8, 1:06 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren54 min
Jul 7, 8:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIChester60 min
Jul 7, 9:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester, Delaware32 min
Jul 8, 7:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex57 min
Jul 8, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHITalbot59 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.