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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2013Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2013, 6:13 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 62 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: Jun 28, 2013, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2013, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 591 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

982 
WWUS81 KPHI 282213
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
613 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

NJZ020-026-282315-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
613 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN OCEAN COUNTY...

AT 609 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR PRESIDENTIAL LAKES...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. 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 THIS
STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS. THE RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CEDAR GLEN LAKES AROUND 620 PM...LEISURE
KNOLL AROUND 630 PM...LEISURE VILLAGE AROUND 640 PM AND POINT
PLEASANT BEACH AROUND 650 PM.

LAT...LON 3988 7413 3984 7442 4006 7455 4017 7439
      4016 7426 4011 7424 4010 7415 4013 7411
      4013 7409 4011 7409 4009 7407 4011 7403
      4006 7402

$$

FORECASTER:JJM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset	4 hr
Jun 27, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	54 min
Jun 27, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	72 min
Jun 27, 10:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 27, 10:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Somerset	4 hr
Jun 28, 1:01 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Mercer, Somerset	5 hr
Jun 28, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	52 min
Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		44 min
Jun 28, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	65 min
Jun 28, 5:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jun 28, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	48 min
Jun 27, 8:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Carbon	3 hr
Jun 27, 10:04 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	6 hr
Jun 28, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	41 min
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Delaware	117 min
Jun 28, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	56 min
Jun 28, 6:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Carbon	4 hr
Jun 28, 6:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monroe	4 hr
Jun 28, 7:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	3 hr
Jun 28, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	New Castle	55 min
Jun 28, 4:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	New Castle	33 min
Jun 28, 5:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	11 hr
Jun 28, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	96 min
Jun 28, 6:48 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	9 hr
Jun 28, 6:48 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	8 hr
Jun 28, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	73 min
Jun 28, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil	55 min
Jun 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	46 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.