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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 26, 2012Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2012, 11:55 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 65 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 26, 2012, 11:55 PM EDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 1843 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 13.3

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The text

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

040 
WWUS81 KPHI 270355
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1155 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012

NJZ020-026-270500-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
1155 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT OCEAN COUNTY...

AT 1154 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF TOMS RIVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR SILVERTON...MANTOLOKING AROUND
1215 AM AND POINT PLEASANT BEACH AROUND 1230 AM.

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.

LAT...LON 3988 7408 3988 7410 3992 7410 3990 7412
      3986 7413 3980 7438 3990 7446 3996 7449
      4011 7420 4010 7415 4013 7411 4009 7407
      4011 7403

$$

FORECASTER: HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	91 min
Jul 26, 11:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	107 min
Jul 26, 11:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	2 hr
Jul 27, 12:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	58 min
Jul 27, 12:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	117 min
Jul 26, 10:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester	3 hr
Jul 27, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	58 min
Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	60 min
Jul 26, 10:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	59 min
Jul 26, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	96 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.