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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2012, 12:02 AM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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 27, 2012, 12:02 AM EDT (04:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
509
WWUS81 KPHI 270402
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1202 AM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012
NJZ020-026-027-270500-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
1202 AM EDT FRI JUL 27 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN BURLINGTON AND
SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTIES...
AT 1158 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES NORTH OF ATLANTIC CITY...MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR MANAHAWKIN...BARNEGAT AROUND
1215 AM AND BARNEGAT LIGHT 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 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3977 7408 3958 7421 3953 7435 3953 7440
3955 7442 3954 7444 3955 7445 3977 7453
3987 7413 3986 7412 3977 7418 3972 7415
3977 7415 3982 7410 3989 7408 3988 7407
$$
FORECASTER: HEAVENERThe 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 26, 11:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 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 |
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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.