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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 3, 2014Cumberland County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2014, 11:13 PM EDT for Cumberland 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: Jul 3, 2014, 11:13 PM EDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2014, 12:15 AM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Cumberland County, NJ

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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.

254 
WWUS81 KPHI 040313
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1113 PM EDT THU JUL 3 2014

NJZ016-021-040415-
CUMBERLAND NJ-SALEM NJ-
1113 PM EDT THU JUL 3 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CUMBERLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN SALEM
COUNTIES...

AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE DELAWARE BAY AND 
WILL MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CUMBERLAND AND SALEM COUNTIES. THE 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. 

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS. 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 THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...AND WILL
CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN
CAN CAUSE RAPID RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. 

LAT...LON 3921 7517 3926 7521 3928 7526 3929 7526
      3928 7529 3934 7534 3933 7537 3940 7545
      3966 7522 3966 7521 3944 7491

$$

ROBERTSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset, Warren	32 min
Jul 4, 12:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	57 min
Jul 4, 12:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	52 min
Jul 4, 1:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	57 min
Jul 4, 1:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	56 min
Jul 4, 8:46 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Jul 4, 9:32 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		118 min
Jul 3, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	61 min
Jul 3, 10:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 3, 11:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 4, 1:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Talbot	4 hr
Jul 4, 5:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	56 min
Jul 3, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	60 min
Jul 4, 7:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Sussex	3 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.