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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 25, 20144 counties in New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jan 25, 2014, 3:11 PM EST for 4 counties in New Jersey. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 25, 2014, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2014, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Atlantic County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 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.

016 
WWUS81 KPHI 252011
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
311 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

NJZ018>027-252215-
ATLANTIC NJ-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-CAMDEN NJ-CAPE MAY NJ-
COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-
NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-
311 PM EST SAT JAN 25 2014

...AN AREA OF HEAVIER SNOW WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST NEW 
JERSEY...
 
AN AREA OF HEAVIER SNOW OVER CUMBERLAND AND ATLANTIC COUNTIES WILL 
CONTINUE TO SPREAD TO THE NORTHEAST AND AFFECT PARTS OF  
BURLINGTON...CAMDEN...CAPE MAY AND OCEAN COUNTIES. THE SNOW WAS 
GENERALLY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE SNOW WILL DROP VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE MILE AND COULD PUT 
DOWN AROUND A QUICK HALF INCH TO INCH OF SNOW. ROADWAYS THAT ARE WET 
COULD BECOME SNOW COVERED, ESPECIALLY LESS TRAVELED ONES. 

IF DRIVING, PLEASE BE ALERT FOR CHANGING ROAD CONDITIONS AND POOR 
VISIBILITIES.  GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF EXTRA BRAKING DISTANCE AND
MORE TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.
 
LAT...LON 3981 7407 3967 7414 3940 7435 3923 7462
      3911 7490 3917 7491 3921 7504 3918 7515
      3929 7529 3934 7530 3938 7542 3946 7541
      3956 7524 3946 7509 3957 7506 3952 7498
      3961 7488 3972 7500 4011 7435 4004 7404

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 25, 3:01 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Gloucester, Salem	89 min
Jan 25, 3:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset	90 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Jersey, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.