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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 5, 2012Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 5, 2012, 11:02 PM EDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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
Aug 5, 11:25 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	Ocean Grove, 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

090 
WWUS81 KPHI 060302
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1102 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012

NJZ013-014-020-026-060400-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-OCEAN NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
1102 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012

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

AT 1101 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTH OF
TOMS RIVER TO 4 MILES NORTH OF TOMS RIVER TO 9 MILES WEST OF TOMS
RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR LOCH
ARBOUR...ALLENHURST AROUND 1115 PM...SEASIDE PARK AND SEASIDE HEIGHTS
AROUND 1130 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 4012 7402 3998 7404 3989 7408 3989 7410
      3992 7410 3989 7413 3989 7446 3993 7447
      4002 7427 4025 7412 4024 7398

$$

HAYES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	58 min
Aug 5, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth	57 min
Aug 5, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Monmouth, Ocean	60 min
Aug 5, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Aug 5, 10:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	48 min
Aug 5, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	43 min
Aug 5, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Aug 5, 11:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	3 hr
Aug 5, 11:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	63 min
Aug 6, 12:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	60 min
Aug 6, 12:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and 1 more	3 hr
Aug 6, 12:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Ocean	59 min
Aug 6, 1:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	66 min
Aug 6, 1:36 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		54 min
Aug 6, 2:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	67 min
Aug 6, 3:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	58 min
Aug 6, 5:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean	113 min
Aug 5, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	55 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.