Alert archive / New Jersey / Winter Storm Watches in 2014
Winter Storm Watch 9, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this winter storm watch at Mar 15, 2014, 3:02 PM EDT for 5 counties in New Jersey; Kent County, New Castle County, Sussex County, Delaware; 5 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Mar 16, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2014, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2014, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
066 WWUS41 KPHI 151902 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 302 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2014 DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ016-017-021>024-160915- /O.NEW.KPHI.WS.A.0009.140317T0000Z-140317T1600Z/ NEW CASTLE-KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-CECIL-KENT MD- QUEEN ANNES-TALBOT-CAROLINE-SALEM-GLOUCESTER-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC- CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILMINGTON...DOVER...GEORGETOWN... REHOBOTH BEACH...ELKTON...CHESTERTOWN...CENTREVILLE...EASTON... DENTON...PENNSVILLE...GLASSBORO...MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON... CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...OCEAN CITY 302 PM EDT SAT MAR 15 2014 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. * LOCATIONS...ALL OF DELAWARE, THE MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE AND GLOUCESTER, SALEM, CUMBERLAND, ATLANTIC AND CAPE MAY COUNTIES IN NEW JERSEY. * HAZARD TYPES...SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW. HIGHEST ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN DELMARVA AND SOUTHEAST NEW JERSEY. * TIMING...PRECIPITATION SHOULD BEGIN SUNDAY EVENING AND MAY START AS RAIN. MOST PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE TO SNOW BY MIDNIGHT. THE HEAVIEST SNOW SHOULD FALL OVERNIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT. SNOW SHOULD START TAPERING OFF MONDAY MORNING AND THE ACCUMULATING SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...SNOW WILL MAKE FOR DIFFICULT DRIVING OVERNIGHT SUNDAY AND IS LIKELY TO GREATLY AFFECT THE MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE. TEMPERATURES WILL BE STARTING ABOVE FREEZING BEFORE IT SNOWS, SO ICING OF UNTREATED ROADWAYS AND WALKWAYS IS LIKELY AS TEMPERATURES FALL AND THE SNOW STARTS ACCUMULATING. * WINDS...NORTHEAST 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. SOME GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ALONG THE IMMEDIATE ATLANTIC COAST. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 20S TO LOWER 30S WHILE ITS SNOWING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. && $$ GIGI/NIERENBERG
1 follow-up statement
723 WWUS41 KPHI 160730 WSWPHI URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 DEZ002>004-MDZ015-019-020-NJZ023-024-162100- /O.UPG.KPHI.WS.A.0009.140317T0000Z-140317T1600Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.WS.W.0008.140317T0000Z-140317T1600Z/ KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-DELAWARE BEACHES-QUEEN ANNES-TALBOT-CAROLINE- CAPE MAY-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DOVER...GEORGETOWN...REHOBOTH BEACH... CENTREVILLE...EASTON...DENTON...CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE...OCEAN CITY 330 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW. IT IS IN EFFECT FROM 800 PM THIS EVENING UNTIL NOON ON MONDAY. * LOCATIONS...THE MARYLAND COUNTIES OF QUEEN ANNE'S, TALBOT AND CAROLINE, THE DELAWARE COUNTIES OF KENT AND SUSSEX, AND CAPE MAY COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY. * HAZARD TYPE...SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...GENERALLY 3 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW. * TIMING...LIGHT RAIN IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST LATE IN THE DAY. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO SNOW THIS EVENING. THE SNOW IS ANTICIPATED TO BECOME MODERATE TO HEAVY FOR A TIME OVERNIGHT BEFORE ENDING ON MONDAY MORNING. * WINDS...NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 OR 30 MPH. * VISIBILITY...ONE HALF MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. * TEMPERATURES...RANGING FROM THE UPPER 20S TO THE MIDDLE 30S DURING MUCH OF THE SNOW EVENT. * IMPACTS...THE SNOW WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT AND ESPECIALLY DURING THE MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE. ROADS AND WALKWAYS WILL BECOME SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS THAT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED. THE SNOW WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS. && $$ DEZ001-MDZ008-012-NJZ016-017-021-022-162100- /O.UPG.KPHI.WS.A.0009.140317T0000Z-140317T1600Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.WW.Y.0015.140317T0000Z-140317T1600Z/ NEW CASTLE-CECIL-KENT MD-SALEM-GLOUCESTER-CUMBERLAND-ATLANTIC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WILMINGTON...ELKTON...CHESTERTOWN... PENNSVILLE...GLASSBORO...MILLVILLE...HAMMONTON 330 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW. IT IS IN EFFECT FROM 800 PM THIS EVENING UNTIL NOON ON MONDAY. * LOCATIONS...CECIL COUNTY AND KENT COUNTY IN MARYLAND, NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN DELAWARE, AND THE NEW JERSEY COUNTIES OF SALEM, CUMBERLAND, ATLANTIC, GLOUCESTER, CAMDEN, SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON AND OCEAN. * HAZARD TYPE...SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...GENERALLY 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW. SOME SPOTS IN KENT COUNTY IN MARYLAND, SOUTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN DELAWARE AND CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND ATLANTIC COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY MAY RECEIVE CLOSE TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW. * TIMING...LIGHT RAIN AND SNOW IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST LATE IN THE DAY. THE MIXED PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO ALL SNOW THIS EVENING. THE SNOW IS ANTICIPATED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT BEFORE ENDING ON MONDAY MORNING. * WINDS...NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 OR 30 MPH. * VISIBILITY...ONE HALF MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. * TEMPERATURES...RANGING FROM THE MIDDLE 20S TO THE LOWER 30S DURING MUCH OF THE SNOW EVENT. * IMPACTS...THE SNOW WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT AND ESPECIALLY DURING THE MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE. ROADS AND WALKWAYS WILL BECOME SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITY. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF DRIVING OVERNIGHT OR ON MONDAY MORNING. && $$ NJZ018-020-025>027-162100- /O.NEW.KPHI.WW.Y.0015.140317T0000Z-140317T1600Z/ CAMDEN-OCEAN-COASTAL ATLANTIC-COASTAL OCEAN- SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CAMDEN...CHERRY HILL...JACKSON... ATLANTIC CITY...LONG BEACH ISLAND...WHARTON STATE FOREST 330 AM EDT SUN MAR 16 2014 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM THIS EVENING TO NOON EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW. IT IS IN EFFECT FROM 800 PM THIS EVENING UNTIL NOON ON MONDAY. * LOCATIONS...CECIL COUNTY AND KENT COUNTY IN MARYLAND, NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN DELAWARE, AND THE NEW JERSEY COUNTIES OF SALEM, CUMBERLAND, ATLANTIC, GLOUCESTER, CAMDEN, SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON AND OCEAN. * HAZARD TYPE...SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS...GENERALLY 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW. SOME SPOTS IN KENT COUNTY IN MARYLAND, SOUTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN DELAWARE AND CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND ATLANTIC COUNTY IN NEW JERSEY MAY RECEIVE CLOSE TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW. * TIMING...LIGHT RAIN AND SNOW IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST LATE IN THE DAY. THE MIXED PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO ALL SNOW THIS EVENING. THE SNOW IS ANTICIPATED TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT BEFORE ENDING ON MONDAY MORNING. * WINDS...NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 OR 30 MPH. * VISIBILITY...ONE HALF MILE OR LESS AT TIMES. * TEMPERATURES...RANGING FROM THE MIDDLE 20S TO THE LOWER 30S DURING MUCH OF THE SNOW EVENT. * IMPACTS...THE SNOW WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT AND ESPECIALLY DURING THE MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE. ROADS AND WALKWAYS WILL BECOME SNOW COVERED AND SLIPPERY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITY. USE EXTRA CAUTION IF DRIVING OVERNIGHT OR ON MONDAY MORNING. && $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Gale Watch | PHI | 6 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in New Jersey, 2014Winter Storm Watches in Maryland, 2014Winter Storm Watches in Delaware, 2014Every winter storm watch 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.