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 Oct 2, 2012, 6:47 PM EDT for Salem County, New Jersey. It was in force for 58 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
- Oct 2, 2012, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 2012, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
785
WWUS81 KPHI 022247
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
647 PM EDT TUE OCT 2 2012
NJZ016-017-021-022-022345-
ATLANTIC NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-SALEM NJ-
647 PM EDT TUE OCT 2 2012
...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PARTS OF ATLANTIC...CUMBERLAND...
GLOUCESTER AND SALEM COUNTIES...
AT 639 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF STORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF BRIDGETON
BACK TO DELAWARE BAY. THE AREA WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE
LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR MALAGA AND FRANKLINVILLE
AROUND 700 PM...VICTORY LAKES AND BUENA AROUND 715 PM...AND COLLINGS
LAKES AND HAMMONTON AROUND 730 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WAS OCCURRING WITH THE STORMS. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3929 7530 3931 7533 3934 7534 3933 7537
3935 7540 3943 7547 3945 7551 3968 7523
3966 7491 3964 7491 3961 7488 3965 7483
3964 7466
$$
MPDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 54 min |
| Oct 2, 3:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren | 2 hr |
| Oct 2, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 56 min |
| Oct 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 57 min |
| Oct 2, 6:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 97 min |
| Oct 2, 6:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 65 min |
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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.