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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 15, 2014Middlesex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2014, 1:21 PM EDT for Middlesex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was in force for 54 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 15, 2014, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2014, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

271 
WWUS81 KPHI 151721
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
121 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 2014

NJZ012>015-019-151815-
EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ-NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON 
NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
121 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MIDDLESEX...MONMOUTH...NORTH
CENTRAL BURLINGTON AND SOUTHEASTERN MERCER COUNTIES...

AT 116 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CROSSWICKS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL 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 ALLENTOWN AROUND 130 PM...ROOSEVELT AROUND
140 PM...MANALAPAN AROUND 150 PM...ROBERTSVILLE AROUND 200 PM...
MORGANVILLE AROUND 210 PM AND STRATHMORE AROUND 220 PM.

LAT...LON 4036 7396 4017 7438 4017 7441 4005 7462
      4014 7473 4016 7472 4019 7476 4035 7461
      4061 7423 4061 7421 4056 7421 4055 7424
      4049 7426 4047 7425 4047 7414 4042 7401
      4048 7400 4045 7396

$$

FORECASTER: HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 8:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 1 more	4 hr
Jul 14, 8:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Burlington	26 min
Jul 14, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	54 min
Jul 14, 8:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 14, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		84 min
Jul 14, 10:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		49 min
Jul 15, 2:50 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Ocean	5 hr
Jul 15, 3:53 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		24 hr
Jul 15, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Somerset	66 min
Jul 15, 1:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris and 2 more	3 hr
Jul 15, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	54 min
Jul 15, 1:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 15, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden	68 min
Jul 15, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	43 min
Jul 15, 2:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jul 15, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	51 min
Jul 15, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	41 min
Jul 15, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	32 min
Jul 15, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		31 min
Jul 15, 2:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	7 hr
Jul 15, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	67 min
Jul 15, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	63 min
Jul 15, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		91 min
Jul 15, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	56 min
Jul 15, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	64 min
Jul 15, 4:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jul 15, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	53 min
Jul 15, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		67 min
Jul 15, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	55 min
Jul 15, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	64 min
Jul 15, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean	61 min
Jul 15, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	62 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	60 min
Jul 15, 5:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset	4 hr
Jul 15, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Jul 15, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		60 min
Jul 15, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more	4 hr
Jul 15, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		115 min
Jul 15, 6:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean and 1 more	4 hr
Jul 15, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean	50 min
Jul 15, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	63 min
Jul 15, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cape May	58 min
Jul 15, 6:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 15, 7:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 15, 7:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	6 hr
Jul 15, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	60 min
Jul 15, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	42 min
Jul 15, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	58 min
Jul 15, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	60 min
Jul 15, 4:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 15, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	56 min
Jul 15, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, Sussex	4 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.