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 Sep 5, 2012, 2:48 PM EDT for Burlington County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 57 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 5, 2012, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2012, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Burlington County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 2034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
162
WWUS81 KPHI 051848
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
248 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012
NJZ019-020-026-027-051945-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
248 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT BURLINGTON AND OCEAN COUNTIES...
AT 246 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES
EAST OF TOMS RIVER TO 23 MILES SOUTH OF TRENTON TO 13 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GLOUCESTER CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR SOUTH TOMS RIVER...TABERNACLE AROUND 255
PM...PINE BEACH...ISLAND HEIGHTS AROUND 300 PM...SEASIDE
HEIGHTS...BEACHWOOD AROUND 310 PM...SHAMONG...OCEAN GATE AROUND 315
PM...BAMBER LAKE AND SEASIDE PARK AROUND 325 PM.
THE STORMS WERE GRADUALLY INTENSIFYING.
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 3987 7407 3986 7409 3992 7410 3990 7412
3986 7412 3974 7444 3979 7491 3981 7490
3990 7474 3998 7410 3996 7410 3998 7408
3999 7405
$$
FORECASTER: DRAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 54 min |
| Sep 4, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Warren | 34 min |
| Sep 4, 9:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 10:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 56 min |
| Sep 4, 10:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 36 min |
| Sep 4, 10:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 57 min |
| Sep 4, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Sep 5, 12:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 12:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Sussex | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 7:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 55 min |
| Sep 5, 8:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 58 min |
| Sep 5, 9:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 62 min |
| Sep 5, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 49 min |
| Sep 5, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 41 min |
| Sep 5, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 45 min |
| Sep 5, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 40 min |
| Sep 5, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 26 min | |
| Sep 5, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 57 min |
| Sep 5, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 48 min | |
| Sep 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 30 min |
| Sep 5, 4:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Ocean | 56 min |
| Sep 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 43 min | |
| Sep 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 81 min |
| Sep 5, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland | 23 min |
| Sep 5, 5:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 98 min |
| Sep 5, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 39 min |
| Sep 5, 6:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 6:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monroe | 60 min |
| Sep 5, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 73 min |
| Sep 5, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 67 min |
| Sep 5, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 61 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.