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, 3:03 PM EDT for Salem County, New Jersey; New Castle County, Delaware. 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, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties New Castle County, DE, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 950 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 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 051903
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
303 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012
DEZ001-NJZ016-052000-
NEW CASTLE DE-SALEM NJ-
303 PM EDT WED SEP 5 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NEW CASTLE AND SALEM COUNTIES...
AT 259 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWARK...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WILMINGTON MANOR...SAINT GEORGES
AROUND 315 PM...NEW CASTLE...PENNSVILLE AROUND 330 PM...SALEM...
HANCOCKS BRIDGE AROUND 345 PM...QUINTON AND ALLOWAY AROUND 400 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 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS
ALSO WEAKLY ROTATING SO A FUNNEL CLOUD OR TWO IS POSSIBLE.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3972 7578 3970 7553 3971 7553 3967 7525
3966 7524 3966 7519 3946 7538 3946 7541
3945 7542 3948 7555 3950 7556 3949 7557
3955 7578 3966 7579
$$
FORECASTER: HEAVENERThe 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, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 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
Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2012Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 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.