Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 12:46 AM EDT for Burlington County, Camden County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 6, 2012, 12:46 AM EDT (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 060446
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1246 AM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
NJZ013-017>020-022-026-027-060545-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAMDEN NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
1246 AM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...
BURLINGTON...CAMDEN...GLOUCESTER...MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES...
AT 1244 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF
VINELAND...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
ATSION...WHARTON STATE FOREST AROUND 100 AM...CHATSWORTH...PENN
STATE FOREST AROUND 115 AM...OLD HALFWAY...BAMBER LAKE AROUND 130
AM...BEACHWOOD AND HOLIDAY HEIGHTS AROUND 145 AM.
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 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3990 7407 3988 7409 3992 7410 3990 7412
3986 7412 3936 7478 3967 7518 4028 7438
4004 7403
$$
HAYESThe 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, 11:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 58 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, 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
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.