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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2014Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2014, 2:04 AM EDT for Monmouth County, Ocean County, New Jersey. It was in force for 56 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 28, 2014, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2014, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:04 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 942 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

316 
WWUS81 KPHI 280604
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
204 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2014

NJZ013-014-020-022-026-027-280700-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-OCEAN NJ-
SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ-
204 AM EDT MON JUL 28 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN MONMOUTH...NORTHERN
ATLANTIC...OCEAN AND SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON COUNTIES...

AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COVERED PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN NEW 
JERSEY AT 200 AM EDT. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE GENERALLY MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS. 

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. 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 IT 
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 3981 7407 3956 7422 3952 7427 3951 7436
      3954 7435 3954 7440 3951 7441 3948 7494
      3951 7494 3990 7458 3993 7447 3999 7451
      4045 7409 4043 7400 4048 7402 4048 7401
      4045 7396 4032 7396

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	34 min
Jul 27, 11:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer	62 min
Jul 27, 11:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	58 min
Jul 28, 12:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Salem	85 min
Jul 28, 12:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jul 28, 1:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden	45 min
Jul 28, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		49 min
Jul 28, 1:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 27, 8:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	62 min
Jul 27, 8:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 27, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester	63 min
Jul 27, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester	54 min
Jul 27, 9:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Montgomery	4 hr
Jul 27, 10:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	55 min
Jul 27, 10:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton	3 hr
Jul 27, 10:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	4 hr
Jul 27, 10:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware	61 min
Jul 27, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	43 min
Jul 28, 12:31 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	3 hr
Jul 28, 2:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	8 hr
Jul 28, 1:39 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	New Castle	8 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.