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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2014Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2014, 7:22 AM EDT for Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 23 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 27, 2014, 7:22 AM EDT (11:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2014, 7:45 AM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2014-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 159 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2014-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

540 
WWUS81 KPHI 271122
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
722 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2014

NJZ020-026-271145-
COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
722 AM EDT SUN JUL 27 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL OCEAN COUNTY...

AT 720 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BEACH HAVEN...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND
THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE BEACHES. FOR YOUR SAFETY...IMMEDIATELY MOVE
OFF THE BEACH AND SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. 

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO 
POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. 

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR SHIP BOTTOM AROUND 730 AM...SURF CITY AROUND
735 AM AND HARVEY CEDARS AROUND 740 AM.

LAT...LON 3967 7414 3960 7421 3956 7422 3950 7429
      3950 7434 3964 7439 3967 7439 3973 7416
      3972 7415 3973 7415 3974 7411

$$

ROBERTSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:13 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI77 min
Jul 27, 3:59 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryPHI38 hr
Jul 27, 7:36 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks4 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.