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 18, 2012, 8:08 PM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 22 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 18, 2012, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2012, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Atlantic County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2894 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
639
WWUS81 KPHI 190008
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
808 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012
NJZ022-025-190030-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-
808 PM EDT WED JUL 18 2012
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHTNING STRIKES WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC
COUNTY...
AT 804 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THUNDERSTORMS 6 MILES WEST OF ATLANTIC CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20-30
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NEAR ATLANTIC CITY AND WILL BE NEAR
BRIGANTINE AROUND 820 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. DO NOT
SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3941 7434 3938 7440 3936 7440 3935 7441
3931 7450 3933 7462 3946 7456 3945 7433
3944 7432
$$
FORECASTER: DRAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 3:04 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 59 hr | |
| Jul 19, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 30 min | |
| Jul 19, 2:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 112 min |
| Jul 19, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 3:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 52 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.