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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2012Camden County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2012, 9:52 PM EDT for Camden County, New Jersey. It was in force for 53 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 28, 2012, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2012, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Camden County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.6

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The text

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

148 
WWUS81 KPHI 290152
SPSPHI

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

NJZ017>019-022-027-290245-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAMDEN NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
952 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...BURLINGTON...CAMDEN
AND GLOUCESTER COUNTIES...

AT 950 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTH OF VINELAND...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR CHESILHURST...COLLINGS LAKES
AROUND 1000 PM...HAMMONTON...FOLSOM AROUND 1015 PM...ATSION...
ELWOOD-MAGNOLIA AROUND 1030 PM...BATSTO AND WHARTON STATE FOREST
AROUND 1045 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3954 7442 3953 7501 3959 7510 3989 7510
      3990 7485 3976 7452

$$

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, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	59 min
Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	118 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.