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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 24, 2013Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2013, 4:16 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 2013, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2013, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 4:45 PM EDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 59	Barnegat, NJ	TIME APPROXIMATE
Jun 24, 4:52 PM EDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 46	Harvey Cedars, NJ

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 705 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1279 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

738 
WWUS81 KPHI 242016
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
416 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013

NJZ013-014-019-020-022-025>027-242115-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
416 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN BURLINGTON...
NORTHERN ATLANTIC...OCEAN AND SOUTHERN MONMOUTH COUNTIES...

AT 415 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR 
JACKSON TO CHATSWORTH TO EGG HARBOR CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE 
STORMS. EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING. DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK 
SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS. MOVE INDOORS WHEN A 
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS AND IT WILL CAUSE WATER 
TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR BATSTO AND CASSVILLE AROUND 420 
PM...ADELPHIA...FREEHOLD...AND CEDAR GLEN LAKES AROUND 430 PM...AND 
HOWELL...EAST FREEHOLD AND LEISURE KNOLL AROUND 440 PM.

LAT...LON 3989 7408 3977 7408 3956 7422 3950 7430
      3946 7430 3949 7485 4025 7447 4028 7440
      4026 7398

$$

IOVINO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean	58 min
Jun 24, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Monmouth	52 min
Jun 24, 3:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	50 min
Jun 24, 3:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	3 hr
Jun 24, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		117 min
Jun 24, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	62 min
Jun 24, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	42 min
Jun 24, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	31 min
Jun 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	31 min
Jun 24, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	53 min
Jun 24, 2:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Delaware	3 hr
Jun 24, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Northampton	40 min
Jun 24, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	50 min
Jun 24, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	58 min
Jun 24, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil	57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.