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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 18, 2013Burlington County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2013, 5:03 PM EDT for Burlington County, New Jersey. It was in force for 27 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: Jul 18, 2013, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2013, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Burlington County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 6 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.

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: 1674 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

527 
WWUS81 KPHI 182103
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
503 PM EDT THU JUL 18 2013

NJZ019-020-027-182130-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
503 PM EDT THU JUL 18 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL BURLINGTON AND WEST 
CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 458 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BROWNS MILLS...MOVING 
EAST AT 15 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH 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 CAN CAUSE RAPID 
RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. 

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CEDAR GLEN LAKES AROUND 530 PM.

LAT...LON 3999 7435 3984 7445 3994 7466 4003 7461

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 2:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	59 min
Jul 18, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	44 min
Jul 18, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	29 min
Jul 18, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	35 min
Jul 18, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	34 min
Jul 18, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	47 min
Jul 18, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	30 min
Jul 18, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	66 min
Jul 18, 6:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden	64 min
Jul 18, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	42 min
Jul 18, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	50 min
Jul 18, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	40 min
Jul 18, 7:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	61 min
Jul 18, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	28 min
Jul 18, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Ocean	57 min
Jul 18, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	48 min
Jul 18, 11:38 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	32 hr

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.