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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 3, 20124 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Sep 3, 2012, 4:39 PM EDT for 4 counties in 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: Sep 3, 2012, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 1340 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 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.

153 
WWUS81 KPHI 032039
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
439 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2012

NJZ016-017-021>023-032145-
ATLANTIC NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-SALEM NJ-
439 PM EDT MON SEP 3 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ATLANTIC...CAPE MAY...
CUMBERLAND...GLOUCESTER AND SALEM COUNTIES...

AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST
OF BRIDGETON TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRIDGETON TO 13 MILES SOUTH OF
MILLVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
NEAR BRIDGETON...PORT NORRIS AROUND 445 PM...SOUTH VINELAND...PORT
ELIZABETH AROUND 500 PM...SOUTH VINELAND...CUMBERLAND AROUND 515
PM...MALAGA...FRANKLINVILLE AROUND 530 PM...VICTORY LAKES AND MONROE
TOWNSHIP AROUND 545 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 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 3916 7490 3919 7503 3921 7504 3919 7511
      3932 7525 3950 7549 3982 7509 3979 7507
      3978 7508 3978 7505 3971 7499 3969 7493
      3961 7488 3966 7481 3940 7456

$$

FORECASTER: HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 6:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	3 hr
Sep 3, 8:05 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	3 hr
Sep 3, 8:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester	2 hr
Sep 3, 10:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden	62 min
Sep 3, 11:14 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden	2 hr
Sep 3, 3:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem	49 hr
Sep 3, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		58 min
Sep 3, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	55 min
Sep 3, 3:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	3 hr
Sep 3, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland	116 min
Sep 3, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		31 min
Sep 3, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	60 min
Sep 3, 6:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Ocean	2 hr
Sep 3, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May	103 min
Sep 3, 6:49 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		3 hr
Sep 3, 7:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic	115 min
Sep 3, 12:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Delaware	3 hr
Sep 3, 12:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware	5 hr
Sep 3, 4:19 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware	91 min
Sep 3, 4:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	3 hr
Sep 3, 6:24 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	4 hr
Sep 3, 8:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware	82 min
Sep 3, 9:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery	3 hr
Sep 3, 12:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	4 hr
Sep 3, 2:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester	119 min
Sep 3, 5:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware	3 hr
Sep 3, 6:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware	2 hr
Sep 3, 7:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	2 hr
Sep 3, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	93 min
Sep 3, 1:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, New Castle	3 hr
Sep 3, 1:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, New Castle	3 hr
Sep 3, 2:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	114 min
Sep 3, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	66 min
Sep 3, 3:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	4 hr
Sep 3, 3:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Kent	20 min
Sep 3, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Talbot	63 min
Sep 3, 11:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	54 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.