Alert archive / New Jersey / Special Weather Statements in 2013
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2013, 9:13 PM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 32 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 20, 2013, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2013, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
767
WWUS81 KPHI 210113
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
913 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013
NJZ020-026-210145-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
913 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY...
AT 912 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR OCEAN ACRES...MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 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 BARNEGAT AROUND 920 PM...
WARETOWN AROUND 930 PM...
BARNEGAT LIGHT AROUND 940 PM.
LAT...LON 3970 7413 3970 7431 3981 7431 3982 7416
3975 7418 3972 7415 3974 7414 3977 7415
3978 7413 3980 7413 3982 7410 3982 7408
3977 7408
$$
FORECASTER: HEAVENERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 57 min |
| Jul 20, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden | 66 min |
| Jul 20, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 67 min |
| Jul 20, 9:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 10:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 83 min | |
| Jul 20, 10:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 95 min | |
| Jul 21, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 3:17 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 89 min |
| Jul 21, 4:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 5:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 5:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 55 min |
| Jul 21, 6:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 88 min |
| Jul 21, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 56 min | |
| Jul 21, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 10:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | New Castle | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 58 min |
| Jul 21, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 95 min |
| Jul 21, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex | 4 hr |
| Jul 21, 4:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 60 min |
| Jul 21, 6:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 9:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 11:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 65 min |
| Jul 21, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 85 min |
| Jul 21, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 84 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.