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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2012Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2012, 10:39 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 66 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, 10:39 PM EDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2012, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.

232 
WWUS81 KPHI 290239
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1039 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

NJZ014-020-022-026-027-290345-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
1039 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

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

AT 1038 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST
OF TOMS RIVER TO 17 MILES WEST OF TOMS RIVER TO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
TOMS RIVER TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF VINELAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR JACKSON...CASSVILLE AROUND 1045 PM...
PENN STATE FOREST...BAMBER LAKE AROUND 1100 PM...LAKEWOOD...WARREN
GROVE AROUND 1115 PM...BAY HEAD...POINT PLEASANT AROUND 1130 PM...
BEACH HAVEN WEST AND BARNEGAT LIGHT AROUND 1145 PM.

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

LAT...LON 3989 7408 3980 7407 3969 7413 3965 7418
      3962 7482 3974 7467 3991 7456 3992 7447
      4001 7451 4013 7446 4014 7425 4011 7423
      4010 7415 4015 7409 4015 7402

$$

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, 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 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.