Alert archive / New Jersey / Dense Fog Advisories in 2014
Dense Fog Advisory 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this dense fog advisory at May 9, 2014, 2:22 AM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2014, 2:22 AM EDT (06:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2014, 10:02 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this dense fog advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dense fog advisory went out at May 8, 9:13 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 9:13 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 9, 1:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 102 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2014 PAZ054-055-090800- CARBON-MONROE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JIM THORPE...STROUDSBURG 102 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2014 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG FORMING... PATCHY DENSE FOG HAS FORMED OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AS THE CLOUDINESS HAS LOWERED TO GROUND LEVEL. LITTLE IMPROVEMENT IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THE HIGHER TERRAIN. DEZ003-004-NJZ013-014-020-022>027-090715- INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-WESTERN MONMOUTH-EASTERN MONMOUTH- OCEAN-ATLANTIC-CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...REHOBOTH BEACH... FREEHOLD...SANDY HOOK...JACKSON...HAMMONTON... CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...OCEAN CITY...ATLANTIC CITY... LONG BEACH ISLAND...WHARTON STATE FOREST 102 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2014 ...PATCHY DENSE FOG FORMING... PATCHY DENSE FOG HAS MOVED IN FROM THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, MAINLY OVER NEW JERSEY, BUT SHOULD START SPREADING WESTWARD IN DELAWARE TOO LATER TONIGHT. LITTLE IMPROVEMENT IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT ONCE THE FOG ARRIVES. DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY THROUGH THICKER FOG PATCHES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:22 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | PHI | 26 hr | |
| May 9, 4:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 93 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.