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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 13, 2014Atlantic County, New Jersey

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2014, 1:08 AM EDT for Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 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: Aug 13, 2014, 1:08 AM EDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2014, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Atlantic County, NJ

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 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-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: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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.

860 
WWUS81 KPHI 130508
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
108 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2014

NJZ020-022-025-026-130545-
ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-OCEAN NJ-
108 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2014

...A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL 
AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC AND SOUTHEASTERN OCEAN COUNTIES...

AT 103 AM EDT...A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED STRONG 
THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM FORKED RIVER TO MYSTIC ISLAND TO 
ENGLISH CREEK...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH ARE ANTICIPATED WITH THE STRONGER 
ACTIVITY. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THE STRONGER 
STORMS.

LAT...LON 3977 7408 3967 7414 3936 7440 3930 7453
      3932 7476 3955 7448 3955 7444 3954 7443
      3963 7439 3987 7412 3986 7412 3978 7418
      3972 7415 3977 7415 3981 7410 3988 7410
      3988 7407

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 8:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Cumberland	6 hr
Aug 12, 10:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May	4 hr
Aug 12, 10:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	4 hr
Aug 12, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	53 min
Aug 12, 11:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Ocean	5 hr
Aug 12, 11:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		59 min
Aug 13, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		93 min
Aug 13, 12:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Ocean	54 min
Aug 13, 1:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean	4 hr
Aug 13, 1:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		95 min
Aug 13, 1:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Monmouth	4 hr
Aug 13, 1:53 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		82 min
Aug 13, 2:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	6 hr
Aug 13, 12:28 PM EDT	Rip Current Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean	8 hr
Aug 13, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	53 min
Aug 12, 9:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Cecil	4 hr
Aug 13, 12:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	6 hr

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.