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 Dec 18, 2012, 3:08 PM EST for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 52 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
- Dec 18, 2012, 3:08 PM EST (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 2012, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
001
WWUS81 KPHI 182008
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
308 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012
NJZ013-014-019-020-026-182100-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
OCEAN NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
308 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012
...A DEVELOPING CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
AFFECT BURLINGTON...MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES...
AT 303 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
TRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE NEAR MCGUIRE AFB...NEW EGYPT AROUND 315 PM...WOODRUFF...LAKEHURST
AROUND 330 PM...LEISURE VILLAGE...LEISURE KNOLL AROUND 345
PM...BRICK TOWNSHIP AND POINT PLEASANT AROUND 400 PM.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY
STRONGER SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4002 7406 4002 7407 3998 7406 3997 7407
3994 7408 3992 7471 4010 7474 4017 7439
4017 7402
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 12:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 60 min |
| Dec 18, 3:51 AM EST | Gale Warning | PHI | 30 hr | |
| Dec 18, 1:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 64 min |
| Dec 18, 1:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 52 min |
| Dec 18, 1:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 2:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon | 60 min |
| Dec 18, 2:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Ocean | 55 min |
| Dec 18, 2:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 61 min |
| Dec 18, 2:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 3:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 66 min |
| Dec 18, 3:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 64 min |
| Dec 18, 3:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 1:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 56 min |
| Dec 18, 2:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 60 min |
| Dec 18, 2:23 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 52 min |
| Dec 17, 11:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 29 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.