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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2012Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2012, 9:46 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2012, 9:46 PM EDT (01:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2012, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 10:11 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Vincentown, NJ

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

720 
WWUS81 KPHI 290146
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
946 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

NJZ013-015-019-020-027-290245-
MERCER NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
946 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BURLINGTON...MERCER...MONMOUTH
AND OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 942 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF
TRENTON TO 19 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CREAM RIDGE...FORT DIX AROUND 945 PM...
MCGUIRE AFB...TABERNACLE AROUND 1000 PM...WOODRUFF...CASSVILLE AROUND
1015 PM...JACKSONS MILLS...WHITING AROUND 1030 PM...PINE RIDGE AT
CRESTWOOD AND LAKEWOOD AROUND 1045 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4005 7411 4003 7411 3968 7424 3983 7485
      4021 7466 4014 7409 4006 7410

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 8:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer	2 hr
Jul 28, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon	55 min
Jul 28, 8:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		64 min
Jul 28, 8:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Mercer	101 min
Jul 28, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset	67 min
Jul 28, 8:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	64 min
Jul 28, 8:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
Jul 28, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		61 min
Jul 28, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	23 min
Jul 28, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	66 min
Jul 28, 9:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	118 min
Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	53 min
Jul 28, 10:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		66 min
Jul 28, 10:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	32 min
Jul 28, 10:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jul 28, 10:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	66 min
Jul 29, 12:22 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		23 min
Jul 29, 1:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	55 min
Jul 29, 1:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cape May	2 hr
Jul 29, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	61 min
Jul 29, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	55 min
Jul 29, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset	64 min
Jul 29, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex	52 min
Jul 28, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	56 min
Jul 28, 9:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks, Philadelphia	64 min
Jul 29, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks, Lehigh	57 min
Jul 29, 3:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Chester	74 min
Jul 29, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	58 min
Jul 29, 6:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon	86 min
Jul 28, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	66 min
Jul 28, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	54 min
Jul 28, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	62 min
Jul 28, 10:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	69 min
Jul 29, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	52 min
Jul 29, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	60 min
Jul 28, 9:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	67 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.