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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 17, 2012, 5:55 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 50 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 17, 2012, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Burlington County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1716 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
453 WWUS81 KPHI 172155 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 555 PM EDT FRI AUG 17 2012 NJZ019-027-172245- NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ- 555 PM EDT FRI AUG 17 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT BURLINGTON COUNTY... AT 551 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR LEISURETOWNE AROUND 600 PM... PEMBERTON HEIGHTS...PEMBERTON AROUND 610 PM...JOBSTOWN AROUND 615 PM...FORT DIX...WRIGHTSTOWN...PRESIDENTIAL LAKES AROUND 620 PM... BROWNS MILLS...COUNTRY LAKE ESTATES AND GEORGETOWN AROUND 625 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4012 7459 3992 7449 3980 7479 3995 7491 $$ SZATKOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 3:38 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 16 hr | |
| Aug 17, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 52 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.